asterisk users - Oct 2005 - Question on hardware requirements when not using a land-line

Hello all.  I am new to Asterisk as well as this group so please excuse me for a
bit as I learn the
ropes of Asterisk.  Anyway,  I currently am using a pap2-na adapter with Teliax
and Mesa Networks (my isp) and
was wondering what I will need to get Asterisk running correctly.  I am
wondering what I will need in the machine besides
a NIC card to handle my home traffic.  I have only 3 phones in the house and am
disconnected from the public
network (qwest) all together.  I will be using VOIP for both incoming and
outgoing, but need the asterisk side
of things so that I can do digit translation (911 to our local emergency
station).  Please help.
 
Thanks,
Travis
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We're using Asterisk with IAX soft phones to provide communication back to
our central office when our people travel.
 
We have configured our firewall to allow UDP 4569 forwarded to Asterisk, and
have tested this, works no problem.
 
My question is, will this support more than 1 simultaneous connection from
the same outside IP address, or will only one soft phone function?
 
or, put another way:
 
Can multiple soft phones (running on separate computers) be used
simultaneously from the same outside IP address?
 
TIA

Leigh
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> Can multiple soft phones (running on separate computers) be used
> simultaneously from the same outside IP address?
Yep, should work fine.
Consider how any one webserver can handle multiple http requests to port 80.

Or consider when what happens when multiple users behind the same nat
firewall (it will look to the outside world that they will all be the
same public IP) access the same web resources simultaneously...it
works fine.

-a