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KPhoneIS User Manual:  How to Call Point to point

Preconditions

- Always use UDP

- Your partner needs to  know your signaling port, thus:
- you have to tell her
- you  have to grants this port is unused, when you start kphone

Setup

There are two ways to setup point to point call:
  1. Use the -t option, does some setup steps automatically
  2. setup by hand
In both cases you have to fix the port to a value, your possible partnes know:
            use -p <port number> on the command line to do so

using the -t option

If you plan to use the -t option:
  1. define a entry in the .kphonesirc (-u <name of your choice>)
  2. specify a port (-p <port number>)
  3. set -t from command line.
The rest is straigth forward, the phone will set
  1. your userid to the previously selected port number a
  2. your proxy to your IP-Address
  3. switch of registering

setup by hand

  1. define a entry in the .kphonesirc (-u <name of your choice>)
  2. specify a port (-p <port number>)
  3. enter the identity panel
In the identity panel:
  1. set a userid of your choice
  2. set your host's ip as proxy
  3. switch of registering

Dial

Session are started the same way as in the proxy case. Please keep in mind:

  1. point to point calls only work if both partners are set up point to point
  2.  your partners URI must contain a port number, if she selected one

Caveat Nat Traversal

Point to point does not work yet if a NAT has to be passed.

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