Opening Your Firewall for Ekiga
You need to open a variety of ports in your firewall to use Ekiga. In particular, you need to open
TCP port 1720 and TCP port range 30000 to 30010. For UDP ports, you must open ports 5000
through 5007 and ports 5010 through 5013. Examples of exact iptables settings you can use to
open these ports are contained in the Ekiga FAQ (www.ekiga.org/faq).
Running Ekiga
To start Ekiga in most distributions, select Applications???Internet???Ekiga Softphone. To start Ekiga
from a Terminal window, type ekiga &. If it is not installed, you can get the package for your
Linux distribution when you install the GNOME desktop. The first time you run Ekiga, the Ekiga
Configuration Assistant starts, enabling you to enter the following information:
Personal Data??”Your first name, last name, e-mail address, comment, and location. You
can also choose whether you want to be listed in the Ekiga ILS directory.
Connection Type??”Indicate the speed of your Internet connection (56K modem, ISDN,
DSL/Cable, T1/LAN, or Custom).
Once you have entered the data, the Ekiga window opens.
Figure 20-8 shows the Ekiga window with the call log to the right. Select Tools???Calls History to
open that log. It shows a history of the calls you make during this session.
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