[rescue] low end Suns as telephone <--> IP devices?

[Ken Hansen]

Linksys & Net2Phone offer hardware devices that are
independent of PC/Sun machine - based on the Linksys
routers - as James describes below, you plug a *real*
phone in and call...

HTH,

Ken

--- James Sharp <jsharp at psychoses.org> wrote:
> > Let's say that I have to communicate with people
> in another country on a
> > regular basis.  Normal phone calls to this place
> are expensive, but
> > unlimited net access IS available.
> >
> 
> I've not seen it done with Sun machines, but if
> you're willing to go the
> (*GACK*) PC route, you can use either a Quicknet
> PhoneJACK or a Linux
> Support Services Wildcat XP-100 card.  The PhoneJACK
> acts like a phone
> line...you plug phones into it.  The Wildcat card
> acts like a phone, you
> plug a phone line into it.  You can make it all work
> with AsteriskPBX...an
> open source PBX from asteriskpbx.org
> 
> I'm working on a similar project myself...but on a
> much bigger scale.
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=====
Ken
n2vip at yahoo.com

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