asterisk users - Jun 2003 - Newbie question on soft phones with SIP and *

I am new to the Telephony world and am trying to get a basic idea of how
things work.

Can I use Asterisk to connect two soft phones on a LAN to communicate
with one another without any additional hardware (besides the
sound-card)?

If this is possible, I seem to be doing something wrong. I have
installed a version of X-Lite and can't seem to get it to ring on my Win
PC.

Any pointers to docs that can give me an idea (except for the
"handbook"
which I'm reading) would be greatly appreciated.

TIA

Tielman


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Tielman,

You can take a look at the quick and dirty guide I'm slowly putting together
if you like...

http://www.automated.it/guidetoasterisk.htm

I'd appreciate any feedback you have on it.. and if it helped....

Andy

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On 06/06/2003 at 14:17 Tielman Koekemoer wrote:
>I am new to the Telephony world and am trying to get a basic idea of how
>things work.
>
>Can I use Asterisk to connect two soft phones on a LAN to communicate
>with one another without any additional hardware (besides the
>sound-card)?
>
>If this is possible, I seem to be doing something wrong. I have
>installed a version of X-Lite and can't seem to get it to ring on my Win
>PC.
>
>Any pointers to docs that can give me an idea (except for the
"handbook"
>which I'm reading) would be greatly appreciated.
>
>TIA
>
>Tielman
>
>
>/*           Tielman Koekemoer 
>               Unix and Network Administrator at Vista University
>               Tel: 012-352 4093 
>               Cel: 083-445 0019
>*/
>
>
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> by  Inflex  and  Mcafee
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