Please note that these exact insctructions will not work anymore - digium has removed their CVS server permanently.

Furthermore, ./configure on the 1.4.2 version of asterisk fails on this default install with "termcap support not found".

I totally agree. A very "ground up" approach detailed configuration process would be awesome.

Please note that on a Gentoo install (I don't know about other distro's), it will work only if the user is added in /etc/asterisk/sip.conf

Looking at the instructions above I notice the software is fetched and built as root, whch is using root without a good excude. This sounds like a bad move to me---instead do everything until make install as a normal user instead. I plan to go further and not run asterisk as special, unprviledged, user instead of root.

I would also note that a box doing SIP, etc in production is probably and exposed server, so maximum parnoia and minimum software are in order. This rules out at least X11 and compilers (and ideally anything else only required by nomal users, which should not exist).

Having said that I a system admin, so might be paranoid :-)

This kind of page is extremely useful for people initially investigating the possibilities. I think many people would investigate further if a very simple "out of the box" configuration worked locally using Mandrake distribution. For example, sample files that allow KPhone to call a demo number (10000), and from there can be extended to make/relay Voip calls. I note that Mandrake 10.1 official does include asterisk rpm as an optional installation package, but it crashed on my machine and it isn't (totally) obvious how to setup KPhone as a local SIP client. I know GUI based systems are not appropriate for (high capacity) Asterisk systems, but surely for some initial dabbling this would be very effective and help promote the solution.javascript:insertAt('editpost','(:idea:)');

Am I missing something? How are users added to asterisk?
In one of the config files I see where to define the extension and such but where does the voicemail store - I would assume under linux user but in the instructions I don't see any references to creating users?
Also how do you do this more dynamically like fwd or a service would?

I know too many questions - but right now now enough answers.

Thank you,
 Andy

Looks like some of the changes affect the configuration of voicepulse for Asterisk. See this for a good example. Remember that the in-(devicelogin):(devicepassword) is not longer used. Use just the (devicelogin):(devicepassword)@gwiax-in-01.voicepulse.com for the registry. Also make sure to grab the rsa public key from here and put in /var/lib/asterisk/keys.

This worked perfect. Thank you for the easy guide.