Avahi
From Ekiga
Avahi is a system which facilitates service discovery on a local network. This means that you can plug your laptop or computer into a network and instantly be able to view other people who you can chat with, find printers to print to or find files being shared. This kind of technology is already found in Apple MacOS X (branded Rendezvous, Bonjour and sometimes Zeroconf) and is very convenient.
Within the Ekiga address book window, you'll be able to see other users on the LAN using Ekiga.
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Install Avahi
Requirements
- You run a recent Kernel (both Linux 2.4 and 2.6 should work) with IP Multicasting enabled
- You run only one mDNS stack
- You disabled all local firewalls (This includes disabling the Firestarter default FW), at least for UDP traffic from and to port 5353
- You don't use a crappy NDISWrapper driver or proprietary WLAN driver that doesn't support multicasting properly
- If you want the entire system to resolve .local domain names, nss-mdns is for you
Installation and Configuration
Please ask your administrator or refer to your distribution documentation. (e.g. for ubuntu: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToZeroconf )
How can I call contacts on the LAN ?
Open the Address Book, people using Ekiga on the LAN should appear in Contacts near me. If there is nothing, try to double-click on Contacts near me.
Which programs works with Avahi ?
FIXME: this page is just cut&paste from the Avahi website.
The VoIP software WengoPhone is reported to work with Avahi.
