Clint Sharp <clint@clintsmc.demon.co.uk> wrote in <qDByE3HH6mVHFwrj@clintsmc.demon.co.uk>:[color=blue]
> Something silly, I've just bought a Cisco IP phone off Ebay (hey it was
> very cheap) and am now wondering what I need to use it, I've seen the
> Asterisk setup pages but wonder if I really need another machine? Is it
> possible to just use it connected directly to a router for making
> Internet only calls (no dial out to POTS and no geographic number needed
> unless it's necessary) Plenty of spare late night time to play...[/color]

Cisco phones come in two types of firmware: CCP (or CCCP, I forgot)
which is known as skinny in Asterisk and SIP.

With SIP you can make it use a voipserver like any SIP-based voip server.

With (C)CCP you are limited to Cisco pbx or Asterisk (and Asterisk really
prefers SIP anyway).

You can only download firmware from cisco with a valid CCO account with
telephony in the linked cisco contract(s). You will also need documentation
from cisco on how to set it up in SIP.

Koos van den Hout

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