July 2002
Intermediate to advanced
528 pages
15h 13m
English
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Installing and Running a UA from Separate Hosts
This is not as complex as you might think. All you have to do is copy some files from your allinone machine to another host. Besides the UA files, you will need the sound files from the /vocal1.3.0/sip/ua/Tone directory to enable dial tone
and ring-back. In our lab, we used cheap headsets and microphones. The UAs by themselves support only the free G.711 codec
.
Tip
These instructions show you how to distribute the UAs over additional hosts. See Chapter 3 for information about distributing VOCAL’s servers over several hosts.
Local Area Network
The simplest setup involves two Linux boxes running the same version of Linux Red Hat . To hear your call, you need a basic sound card and some form of microphone and speaker combination for both machines.
On the remote machine, from
/usr/local, typemkdir vocaland from vocal,mkdir bin.From
/usr/local/vocal/bin, copy the UA andua1000.cfgfiles to the/usr/local/vocal/bindirectory on the other machine.From
/usr/local/vocal1.3.0/sip/ua, copy the complete Tone directory to the same directory on the other machine. Remember,/usr/local/vocalcontains the binaries;/usr/local/vocall.3.0contains the source code.Following the instructions from the earlier section, "Testing Your Installation,” register both users and make calls.
Wide Area Network
If you have a broadband Internet connection with a fixed IP address, you can send the ua and Tone files to someone else who also has broadband and is ...
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