voice over ip with vgetty?

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Hi,

On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 05:09:00PM -0500, Dave Packham wrote:
> How hard would it be to extend vgetty to bridge/gateway the voice it
> recieves on one modem to another vgetty computer over the internet? 
> sorta of like voice over ip?  

This is pretty much something completely different - you could do this
based on a few functions in the vgetty source, but basically this would be
a completely new program.

> Hook a analog phone to the handset port on both sides and then be able
> to talk over the internet thru the modem interfaces.  I know that this
> can be done with sound cards and software but the use of hooking up the
> computers to local POTS lines and them acting as a voice over ip bridge
> to another local POTS line would be great.   I have seen hardware that
> does this.  
> 
> Can vgetty/mgetty do this?

Not without changes.  (And you need a voice modem that can go fullduplex,
not all of them can).

gert
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