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Internet telephony - BuddyPhone

Support for BuddyPhone works best with ICQ. Register this free instant messenger software and you will enjoy "one-touch-button" operation when calling your friends.

All users active in your ICQ buddy list will appear in your BuddyPhone phone book and placing a call is as easy as selecting a user on the list.

There are no settings required as long as you use BuddyPhone and ICQ together. The destination port is 700. This is the port number used by BuddyPhone.

Using BuddyPhone without ICQ

WinRoute Lite allows you to divert the calls coming from the Internet to the right recipient in the local network based on the port number. To enter port numbers go to, settings=> Advanced settings=> Port Mapping=> Add=> Edit mapped port.

Under description you will enter: BuddyPhone, the incoming port number is equal to: 710 for the first user with BuddyPhone, forward packets to the user's internal IP address 192.168.1.2 Advanced Settings: the protocol that applies is UDP.

It will be necessary to configure each user individually in WinRoute Lite with their port number and local IP address.

Use ports 710 and up to assign the local users with their proprietary port.

Example:

You have three users in your LAN using BuddyPhone.

User name

User's IP internal IP address

Port assigned to user

John

192.168.1.2

710

Quido

192.168.1.3

711

Bob

192.168.1.4

712

Then you will set the Port Mapping:

Port number

Local IP address

Destination Port

710

192.168.1.2

710

711

192.168.1.3

711

712

192.168.1.4

712

Placing a phone call to the user will be as easy as entering the company.com:port# in the BuddyPhone direct dial dialog. For example sales.winroute.com:711.