It is a great book, I used it to help me setup my first voip box.  Here's that 
link:
http://www.asteriskdocs.org/
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-----Original Message-----
From: John covici <cov...@ccs.covici.com>

Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:11:18 
To: <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: [gentoo-user] telephony


Take a look at a book called "The Future of Telephony" -- its free,
but I am not sure where to get it.

on Wednesday 04/22/2009 Simon(turne...@gmail.com) wrote
 > hi there,
 >   i'm looking for suggestions and guidance.  I have a vps host with
 > gentoo on it, i dont think the vps is stable enough to ensure a good
 > quality of service, but it could just need an upgrade, no big deal.  I
 > need a phone and the way i decided to go was to get a connection to
 > the internet and use voip or similar services.
 > 
 >   I've looked into several ideas, but the last one that remains a good
 > 'deal' is to set it all up myself, for free (but lots of work)!
 > 
 > I'm thinking on setting up asterisk, but having read about it in the
 > past, i know as soon as i set it up it will take more of my time than
 > my girlfriend ever dreamed of!  It seems extremely difficult to setup,
 > specially for a newbie, I'm wondering if you guys know of a few good
 > guides (that you have experience with, i can google too) for this and
 > if you had any suggestion, pointers, starters mostly...
 > 
 > I've read those, but I'm sure there are a lot of surprises not covered
 > by these...
 > http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+Linux+Gentoo
 > http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Asterisk
 > 
 > Thanks for any help!
 > 
 > -- 
 > When Earth was the only inhabited planet in the Galaxy, it was a
 > primitive place, militarily speaking.  The only weapon they had ever
 > invented worth mentioning was a crude and inefficient nuclear-reaction
 > bomb for which they had not even developed the logical defense. -
 > Asimov

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         John Covici
         cov...@ccs.covici.com

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