[Asterisk-Users] Re: Running asterisk without special hardware

[Bruno Hertz]

Manish Sapariya <msapariya at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
> I was going through some of the list postings...and I felt
> like if want to do voip within a LAN, I might have to install
> Asterisk on every machine.
>
> I hope it is not the case.
>
> What I understand is (or what I want is)
>
> - Install asterisk on one of the machine on LAN
> - Install softphone on all the machines who want
> to participate in voip communication
> - Configure softphones to use the asterisk as the
> service provider (I dont know how to do this...will
> figure out from the softphone i use)
>
> Please correct me if I misunderstood something.
> Thanks,
> Manish

Well, add to that the configuration of your (single) asterisk
installation itself, which basically means setting up a dial plan,
and you got the right picture.

Note: extensive documentation on practically all aspects of *
configuration can be found on the Wiki
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk

Regards, Bruno.