William Warren <hescominsoon at emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com> wrote: >> have you tried trixbox which is an asterisk version based off of Centos? << Seconded. I have an 8-extension, 2-POTS-line + VoIP Asterisk setup here which started life as an Asterisk at Home (precursor to trixbox) install the best part of 2 years ago. It's based on Centos 4.5, and I enabled various repos to keep the base distro up-to-date but have maintained the asterisk, asterisk-addons, zaptel, etc. packages manually ever since, no problem. >From my experience, building Asterisk is only where the fun starts - you then have to configure your phones and write a callplan. I did that for a basic installation, but trixbox will give you a nice web-based management interface with MySQL CDR integration, flash console and a bunch of other stuff (automated attendant, voicemail, wakeup calls, etc) working pretty much out of the box. I've tweaked the callplan and added some functionality, but my basic goal was to get a phone system up and running to support two professional consultancies without it becoming a full-time job in its own right. Best, --- Les Bell, RHCE, CISSP [http://www.lesbell.com.au] Tel: +61 2 9451 1144 FreeWorldDialup: 800909