VOIP/Telephony Applications/Embedded Systems info...

[Martes Wigglesworth]

Greetings list.

Do any of you guys have any experience building embedded systems, like
homemade routers, or anything like that?  I was wondering where I could
find some good information.  I have the "Embedded Freebsd Cook Book,"
however, I am just beginning programming, and have no idea how to
empliment the "out-of-context" mixed explanations about the patches that
the auther mentions.  Where can I find a good book about Freebsd kernel
programming?  I am ordering the C book that was written in like the 70's
and some other books, however, I just wanted some functional knowledge,
instead of having to wait until I get to page 300 and whatever, before I
could truely understand the 100 and whatever page cook book.

And also, do any of you do anything with hosting Voice Over IP, or just
Internet Telephony Applications?   Looking for that stuff too.  I guess
I am thinking about building a telephony gateway/everything gateway, for
my home office, as an experimental trial for my production environment.
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Respectfully,



Martes G Wigglesworth
HHC 276 EN BN 
APO AE 09334
martes.wigglesworth at us.army.mil
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Respectfully,


M.G.W.

System:
Asus M6N 
Intel Dothan 1.7
512MB RAM
40GB HD
10/100/1000 NIC
Wireless b/g (not working yet)
BSD-5.2.1
GCC-3.3.5/3.3.3(until I replace indigenous gcc)
IFORT-for linux(Intell Fortran)
gfortran
python-2.3
Perl-5.6.1/5.8.5
Java-sdk-1.4.2_5
KDE-3.1.4