Let me start out with a warning, in case you don’t know me, I’m really good with computers and pretty good with Linux. I’m a first-rate amateur with the telephony side of things, so my terminology may be off and there may be some concepts that I just don’t get yet. Before you agree to pay for anything, my advice is to get an idea of the rough costs of the service. I asked about my plans on the Toronto Asterisk Users Group mailing list and received some great pointers.
The latest version of Asterisk at the time I’m writing this is 1.2.13. I had some success experimenting with VoIP on FC4, so I want to install Asterisk on my current SuSE 10.1 and see if I can get any further with it. Unfortuanately the package offered to me is 1.2.5. I wouldn’t normally care about being a few minor versions behind but the last update was for a security fix for a pretty popular device - there could be modules I’d be running that would be vulnerable.
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