That's what an FXS port is for, it provides dial tone and other functions that a CO would provide. I don't know if you could plug your entire phone 'network' into it or not. You might try asking or searching the asterisk-users mailing list, it's a very active list.
Ed On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Bill McGonigle wrote: > On Nov 17, 2004, at 12:11, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: > > > You need > > an FXO card of some sort to plug your phone line into. You can buy a > > single port FXO card from Digium (Wildcard X100P) for $100... > > Then, you need IP phones. You can get Grandstream Budgetones for about > > $65, or you can spend $600 on a Cisco :-) > > Is there a card you can use to plug your existing phone 'network' into? > At this point I just want Asterisk for doing voicemail and > auto-attendant, so no need for VOIP phones, per se, just two POTS lines > in the house. > > -Bill > ---- > Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 > BFC Computing, LLC Home: 603.448.1668 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 603.252.2606 > http://www.bfccomputing.com/ Text: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > AIM: wpmcgonigle Skype: bill_mcgonigle > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss > _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss