VoIP Cookbook: Configuring Account in Ekiga

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Configuring an Account in Ekiga may be done through menu

Ekiga -> Edit -> Accounts

or

Ekiga -> Ctrl-E

The detailed of VoIP Account configuration in Ekiga is as follows,

Start Account Configuration

After the Account menu is activated, we will see the above figure.

Add SIP Account

Click on Accounts -> Add a SIP Account

Add SIP Account information

In the above Example, we enter the parameter to use SIP account in VoIPRakyat. Enter the data, namely,

Name			Nabil Suhaemi
Registrar		voiprakyat.or.id
User			123456
Authentication User	123456
Password		<your password in voiprakyat.or.od>


Add SIP Account information

In the above figure, we set the parameter for local VoIP softswitch at IP address 192.168.0.3.


Enable SIP Account

Make sure the account is activated by click-in on the A column. To use the account, we need to make sure the account is registered to the softswitch.

Ekiga Ready to use

Shown in the above figure is Ekiga after it successfully registered to the softswitch. At the bottom of the softswitch we can really see that it “Registered sip: …...”. At this point, we can make a call by putting the destination number in after the sip: field.


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