Actually we're not in much disagreement, I know the book is out of date, and in fact, it's not really that good (the tutorial is weirdly non-linear and I was aghast at some of the errors in the chapter on traditional telephony) but it does have an informative tutorial that is still probably of value to novices.
And yeah, I guess I forgot to mention that if you're going to use the ebuild, you should use the masked version (which is basically current). Sean Cook wrote: > Unfortunately, I would completely disagree with Mark on this... ATFOT is a > great book, however it is a bit dated. And as for asterisk ebuilds... > forget it... they are still running out of 1.0 when 1.2 has been out for > almost a year and 1.4 is on it's way into beta. > > Download the source... compile and install it... > > You need the following packages: > > ncurses > openssl > zlib > bison > > Then download all the necessary 1.2 packages and... > > # cd zaptel-1.2 > # make clean; make install > # cd ../libpri-1.2 > # make clean; make install > # cd ../asterisk-1.2 > # make clean; make install > > > > Sean > > > On 28-Sep-2006, Mark Rudholm wrote: >> You should read the book "Asterisk The Future of Telephony". >> It is available for free download. Search for "AsteriskTFOT.pdf" >> Also, http://www.voip-info.org/ is a good resource for information. >> >> The Asterisk ebuild is pretty good. It sets everything up for >> you, you just have to edit your config files. It's not something >> you can do in 10 minutes. I'd say the complexity level is about >> on par with Apache. >> >> -Mark >> >> Suranga Kasthuriarachchi wrote: >>> Dear all, >>> >>> Please anyone have experience about asterisk setup. and I'm very new to >>> asterisk. so please help me to configure my asterisk server. >>> i need to know like what are the basic requirement for to setup asterisk.. >>> >>> Thanking you, >>> >>> Suranga >>> >> -- >> [email protected] mailing list >> -- [email protected] mailing list
