Carlos E. R. wrote:
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On 2016-12-13 09:56, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
I often connect to remote systems via vncviewer (remote is Linux) or rdesktop (remote is Windows). It works great to share the remote desktop with a remote user. One thing I miss is to be able to talk to the remote user at the same time. Obviously, the telephone works. But where is the challenge in doing that?
Does anyone have a suggestion for an app supported on openSUSE that allows this? Something that is not too complicated. We don't need conference calls or anything fancy. Just two computers, each with a mic and speakers. If we stay with Linux on both sides, we can add KDE into the mix as that is the desktop on both ends.
I would think VoIP, voice over IP. Yes, often they require an external server, when using SIP, to find one another. The server doesn't need to handle the conversation, just helps finding one another and traverse the router/NAT when people are on dynamic internet addresses.
That was my thought too - you could run asterisk internally, but it's a bit of big gun for this.
But if you happen to know the IP address of the other side you can directly initiate the conversation, I think it was with Ekiga.
That ought to be sufficient - I wonder if it works.
I don't have hardware now to try and tell you the application and the function that does it. But with NAT in the mix, things get more complicated.
Not really, these days most VoIP clients (software or hardware) have the necessary "keep-alive" built in. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (1.0°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free dynamic DNS, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org