[Freeswitch-users] Newbee: Need Help Thin Client Environment

[Michael Collins]

Curious - what kinds of SIP phones do the clients support? Have you decided
what you'd be using?
-MC

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 8:31 PM, murrah boswell <otrcomm at isp-systems.net>wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> I am an absolute newbee in the voip world but have a project where I
> believe freeswitch will work and need very, very basic guidance
> on how to setup a testbed in a thin client environment.
>
> I am using K12LTSP 5EL (Centos5) for my terminal server/host testbed and
> utilize fl_teachertool 0.07 to monitor the connected
> terminal clients (TCs). If you are not familiar with fl_teachertool, it
> allows a teacher to view thumbnail images of each TC logged
> in to the server. The teacher can click on any thumbnail and enlarge the
> view, monitor all applications running on a given TC, and
> take control of the keyboard and mouse of the TC. These are just a few of
> the capabilities of fl_teachertool.
>
> What I want to do is allow the teacher to establish voice communication
> using headsets and microphones with any one of the TCs by
> making a "phone" call via ethernet based upon ip of the TC through
> freeswitch using a softphone.
>
> Does this sound like something that is possible using freeswitch? If so,
> could someone please give me very basic instructions on how
> to setup this proof of concept? If I can just get a "teacher" stationed at
> my server talking to one "student" at a TC, I believe I
> can go from there. Currently I have a voiper softphone that functions, I
> believe, under gnome, but I have no idea how to configure
> the voiper to initiate calls through freeswitch or how to configure
> freeswitch to route the call to one of my TCs.
>
> I also need to keep this system fully self contained. That is, I can not
> have a requirement to use an outside sip service provider.
>
> Also, I would use any other linux sip softphones known to work with
> freeswitch that people feel would work better than a voiper.
> voiper seems to be more windows and mac based. I would really like to use
> an ekiga since they seem to be more linux based, but I do
> not believe that they have been thoroughly tested with freeswitch.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
>
> Regards,
> Murrah Boswell
>
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