Your welcome, also I seem to remember there being a caveat to running asterisk in a vserver (if your host uses that technology) but its not coming to mind. Maybe when I'm home infront of a real computer I can find it. Also I really liked the voiper soft phone, its not in the tree but might be woth a look. Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
-----Original Message----- From: Simon <turne...@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:05:02 To: <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] telephony oh! wow, i was on that page, but i followed some of the links and got to a place where you had to register to view the whole content on the website... didnt know it was avail for download!! thanks! On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:04 PM, <kyle.ba...@gmail.com> wrote: > It is a great book, I used it to help me setup my first voip box. Here's > that link: > http://www.asteriskdocs.org/ > Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile > > -----Original Message----- > From: John covici <cov...@ccs.covici.com> > > Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:11:18 > To: <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> > Subject: [gentoo-user] telephony > > > Take a look at a book called "The Future of Telephony" -- its free, > but I am not sure where to get it. > > on Wednesday 04/22/2009 Simon(turne...@gmail.com) wrote > > hi there, > > i'm looking for suggestions and guidance. I have a vps host with > > gentoo on it, i dont think the vps is stable enough to ensure a good > > quality of service, but it could just need an upgrade, no big deal. I > > need a phone and the way i decided to go was to get a connection to > > the internet and use voip or similar services. > > > > I've looked into several ideas, but the last one that remains a good > > 'deal' is to set it all up myself, for free (but lots of work)! > > > > I'm thinking on setting up asterisk, but having read about it in the > > past, i know as soon as i set it up it will take more of my time than > > my girlfriend ever dreamed of! It seems extremely difficult to setup, > > specially for a newbie, I'm wondering if you guys know of a few good > > guides (that you have experience with, i can google too) for this and > > if you had any suggestion, pointers, starters mostly... > > > > I've read those, but I'm sure there are a lot of surprises not covered > > by these... > > http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+Linux+Gentoo > > http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Asterisk > > > > Thanks for any help! > > > > -- > > When Earth was the only inhabited planet in the Galaxy, it was a > > primitive place, militarily speaking. The only weapon they had ever > > invented worth mentioning was a crude and inefficient nuclear-reaction > > bomb for which they had not even developed the logical defense. - > > Asimov > > -- > Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: > How do > you spend it? > > John Covici > cov...@ccs.covici.com > > -- When Earth was the only inhabited planet in the Galaxy, it was a primitive place, militarily speaking. The only weapon they had ever invented worth mentioning was a crude and inefficient nuclear-reaction bomb for which they had not even developed the logical defense. - Asimov
