Koos van den Hout wrote:[color=blue]
> Clint Sharp <clint@clintsmc.demon.co.uk> wrote in <qDByE3HH6mVHFwrj@clintsmc.demon.co.uk>:[color=green]
>> 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).[/color]

Not quite. The 7960/7940 8.2 firmware is freely downloadable, assuming
that's what you've bought.
[url]http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/sip-ip-phone7960[/url]