Hello,

On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 12:35:01PM +0000, Peter Much wrote:
> Any clues, ideas, pointers, hints, ressources,... are greatly
> welcomed!!

Maybe you don't really want to hear this, but...

ISDN is a dying technology. Any time soon you won't get ISDN termination 
by your telecom provider anymore. If at all, theyll deliver S0 in your 
home while doing VoIP from that little box on your wall.

You've got 1.5yrs now to change your setup (as I understand we're 
talking about a small home setup, nothing very complex) to VoIP. This is 
technically not a very complex task and you can even transfer your phone 
number. You cannot only have an networked answering machine, but yould 
also connect with your notebook or an IP phone from nearly everywhere in 
the world. Not only to check your answering machine, but even make or 
take calls on your local number when needed.

I did the same step several years ago and I didn't regret it for a 
single second.


FreeBSD also offers plenty of VoIP software. So if the services your 
VoIP provider offers don't satisfy your needs you can even have your own 
complete telephony solution behind it which offers an own answering 
machine, selective call forwarding, VPN access, ...


Give it a try first and when you get comfy then switch over and forget 
about ISDN at all.


- Oliver


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| Oliver Brandmueller          http://sysadm.in/         [email protected] |
|                        Ich bin das Internet. Sowahr ich Gott helfe. |
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