I just read the man page for ohphone which I got to via the HOWTO mentioned.
It does NOT do PC-to-phone. It does IP-to-IP, voice over IP. This appears
to be no different than, again, glorified IRC or IM with voice instead of
text. It does not ring someone's phone.
Unless I am mistaken (I would like to be), there STILL remains not a single
PC-to-phone service/app for linux (or Macs).
^^^^^
As I think on this, would not dialing someone's phone from the internet
require a server somewhere that would take net traffic and route it to the
phone switch in a certain area? Say I want to call my parents on my PC.
Using the normal phone system, this is a longdistance call. To make the call
with my PC and have it be, essentially free, my phonecall would need to go to
a switch/router/server in my parent's state that would then redirect the
signal to a local phoneswitch (or some such), making my longdistance call
from my PC essentially a local call. Is this not how net2phone and dialpad
is done? Via a server through client software?
On Monday 05 February 2001 11:33, Tricia C. Sesar you wrote:
> Read this:
>
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/VoIP-HOWTO.html
>
> On Monday 05 February 2001 23:20, Praedor Tempus wrote:
> > OK, I have looked and tried this and that. If you go with Yahoo
> > messenger, it misleadingly indicates that it will do PC-to-phone calls.
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