[Asterisk-Users] Newbie General questions

[Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro)]

Hello,

I am new to this and i am planning to setup a linux phone-server but i
have a few questions.
Sorry if they sound very newbie but i have to start somewhere, right ?
:)

1) if i setup asterisk, do i need additional hardware if other computers
via internet want to talk to me ?

2) How do you call somewhone else ? If someone is at the other side of
the world and he has a softphone on his computer installed, does he just
has to enter the number (IP) of my server ?

3) What softphones are good ?
Any links to opensource/free softphones for linux and windows ?

4) is someone calls me from somewhere, let's say a hotel and he is after
a firewall and got on the net via a router so he is in a private ip
domain, will the communcation work or is it a client-client communcation
one the connection is made ?

5) If my phone server has an ip address that changes every day, is there
a solution for this ?
Can i install such a free ip-domain-linker and let my softphone connect
to that name instead of directly the ip address ?

Thnx!
Phil.



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