Peter Silva wrote: > So I have a spa2102 (SIP -> 2 FXS ports) that talks to the plain old > telephones in my house. Line 2 is set to use a voip provider > (callcentric, as recommended by mlug!) so far so good. What I would > really like to do is have some sort of routing where a little server > does voicemail and forwards it to my email account. I'd also like > laptop softphone and home phone both ring when someone phones home, > and be able to have glorious voice menus to allow per person > extensions and distinctive rings, and ... I dunno what, but it'll be fun. > > My router/firewall is debian, and apt-get install asterisk worked, but > the configuration looks really complicated. It doesn't seem to have > any getting started type documentation, just sort of reference > material. Since I have the SPA box, I don't actually need any > POTS/PSTN function. without any PSTN to do, do I even need asterisk? > Is there pure SIP-based switch that would be easier / faster / simpler ? > I have the ekiga softphone on my laptop, and an asterix prompt... > > I guess the first thing I'd like to do is create an account on asterix > for the ekiga phone, and another > one for "line2" on the SPA, and phone one from the other... (leaving > line1, the real phone, alone for now.) > Do I just mess with sip.conf for that? decent "getting started" type > guides? I would suggest asterisknow or any of the preconfigured distros. I had mine up and running in 20 mins using a livecd and from there you can see how it is supposed to work at least, and you can set up something more minimal or custom later. They also have decent documentation and forums etc. The one I used had a web frontend for configuring stuff.
I played with mine in a virtual machine. You can of course do it the way you are, the main asterisk site has lots of info, but most of it is outdated and hard to follow. Asterisk - the Future of Telephony O'Reilly book is decent. Jeremy _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
