>New to Aserisk 1.6 and find the 'installation tutorials' seem low to non
>existent.
I first looked at * about four months ago and rapidly came to the same
conclusion. Even with the O-Reilly book, which I purchased in paper, although
it is freely downloadable, I feel there is a huge dearth of information. As I
have become a bit involved, I find there is more than meets the eye, but it is
spread across the entire internet! So far I am not aware of anything that fits
any of three categories I feel are essential:
1. A good tutorial with enough detail to allow a person with a CS degree,
years of telephony experience and limited Linux experience (myself)
to install and configure a reasonable * system (something more complex
that an FXO or two and a couple of SIP phones.
2. A reference guide that lists all commands and options with explanations
of why
they are useful and how to use them. Even the book doesn't attempt to
touch
this one. Such a reference needs to include things like Dahdi and
other pieces
that aren't strictly part of * but without which few installations
could exist.
3. A decent cross-reference that can quickly allow someone to find the
scattered
information available on the web. Even this mailing list is so
hopelessly linear
in nature compared to most other newsgroups I am involved in as to be
almost
useless to me.
My conclusion after installing a worthless * demo (that actually does allow two
SIPs to talk to each other) is that Asterisk is not of any value to anyone
other than a person who makes a full time career out of running Asterisk
systems. I've installed and maintained several traditional PABXs and even
wrote the control firmware (in 6502 assembly) for one, with sizes from 6
stations to 300 stations, including things like DID. It was kindergarten
compared to Asterisk, and primarily because of the huge information vacuum.
Wilton
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