[asterisk-users] A very lost newbie.

[Brian Vincent (C)]

I really think the best way to learn Asterisk is to start with the
Trixbox distribution (www.trixbox.org <http://www.trixbox.org/> ).  You
can quickly do some very complicated things - IVR's, extensions, trunks,
etc.  In the end, trixbox just writes out the configuration into the
normal /etc/asterisk files and you can see what it's doing.  From there
you can begin modifying examples, etc.  

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Brian Vincent
Copper Mountain Telecom
vincentb at coppercolorado.com 

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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of David R.
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 4:40 PM
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: [asterisk-users] A very lost newbie.

 

Here's my situation.  I'm a programmer at the ISP I work for and my
supervisors have seen fit for me to become an administrator for our new
ventures into the VoIP world.  All of us are relatively new at this
jazz, though naturally my higher ups have more experience than I.  We're
toying with VoIP a lot in the office, and I personally feel like I'm
fairly far behind them in knowledge of it all. 

I've done some studying the past day or two, and I grasp the basic
principles of VoIP, Asterisk, and SER/OpenSER, and about 5% of the
hardware involved in all of it (programmer; software guy).  I'd like to
catch up to them as quickly as possible so I can be of most use.  Here's
what I have available to me, and what I've done so far: 

AVAILABLE:
- A box with OpenBSD (my preferred OS for most production servers)
- Asterisk installed on the box.
- One IP Phone

DONE:
- Installed Asterisk.
- Written this e-mail.  :)

I'm wondering where to begin.  I have Asterisk installed but don't know
how to go about getting my IP phone to work with it.  To start, I'd like
to make calls only internally on my home network (not even screwing with
my company's network yet; they're further along into configs than I want
to get into just yet) to a soft phone that Ubuntu Dapper Drake (my OS at
home) comes with. 

My question is this:

Where can I find good starter documentation(s) for my purposes?

Thank you,
David

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