Newbee: Need Help Thin Client Environment
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
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 9:31 PM, murrah boswell<otrcomm@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 think this would be a fairly simple matter of installing freeswitch and your softphone of choice on your ltsp server and configuring your extensions to register on 127.0.0.1, or whatever interface your freeswitch internal profile will be active on. In other words, ltsp is designed such that you can install your telephony on the server and the ltsp infrastructure will proliferate that functionality to your thin client. Install freeswitch and ekiga on the server and get ekiga to register. If you have trouble with that then this would be the place to ask. Once you get your ekiga extension registered and you are able to call voice mail, moh, etc, then log into a thin client and try the same from there. I think it will just work, but if not, that would be a good problem for the ltsp-discuss mailing list. https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss db
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@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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Curious - what kinds of SIP phones do the clients support? Have you decided what you'd be using? -MC
I am still experimenting! I have a zoiper 2.0 installed on one of my test clients. zoiper seems to work fine, so now I am attempting to get the freeswitch/zoiper interface working. I will also try to get an ekiga working, but first the zoiper. First I have to figure out how to get freeswitch operational and will be working on that tonight! Regards, Murrah Boswell
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 8:31 PM, murrah boswell <otrcomm@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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I was thinking, for the students machines your could run the command line program linphonec in auto answer mode ( linphonec -a ). When a teacher calls one of the thin clients, the student would automatically hear and be able to speak to the teacher and not have to worry about dealing with a softphone. You could probably do that as well with freeswitch running as a client on each thin client, but linphoncc does this very well today. D- ----- Original Message ----- From: "murrah boswell" <otrcomm@isp-systems.net> To: freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 6:57:49 PM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Newbee: Need Help Thin Client Environment
Curious - what kinds of SIP phones do the clients support? Have you decided what you'd be using? -MC
I am still experimenting! I have a zoiper 2.0 installed on one of my test clients. zoiper seems to work fine, so now I am attempting to get the freeswitch/zoiper interface working. I will also try to get an ekiga working, but first the zoiper. First I have to figure out how to get freeswitch operational and will be working on that tonight! Regards, Murrah Boswell
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 8:31 PM, murrah boswell <otrcomm@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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