[ale] Anyone playing with Asterisk?

[Dow Hurst]

In the article NAT was pointed out along with firewalls as the biggest 
failure point for new installations.  They recommended an internal LAN 
to start out with and then add in NAT and firewalls for testing purposes.
Dow


Jim Philips wrote:

>On Sunday 03 October 2004 11:47 am, Dow Hurst wrote:
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>>I was just reading an article in a Linux magazine on Asterisk.  Seemed
>>really cool but the configuration was described as not easy for GUI
>>oriented point and click admins.
>>Dow
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>You would be surprised how easy it is to get started. I don't have any 
>hardware hooked up to it yet, but you can do lots of things with the CLI, 
>which looks kind of like the one for Python. Since it includes a complete 
>voicemail system, there are voice prompts to give you instructions as soon as 
>you type "dial" at the command prompt and hit "Enter". In about 30 minutes of 
>fiddling, I learned how to dial my own dummy extension, leave a voice mail, 
>dial voice mail and retrieve my voice mail. You can also dial another 
>Asterisk box that is hooked up to the Internet, but I haven't been able to 
>get that to connect yet. The test box may be down. If you have VOIP and hook 
>it up to an Asterisk server, that is just one more way you can get advanced 
>telephonic features without being taxed by the telco dinosaurs.
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