You may want to take a serious look at FusionPBX, it makes many of the more mundane administrative and monitoring tasks a lot easier, especially if you're not working with it and making changes every day. It avoids much of the "ok... how did I do that again?" It's a nice tool for learning the architecture of FS as you're getting started, although relying upon it too heavily will likely slow your learning over the long haul. You won't ever completely get away from editing files though, often vi is the best administrative tool available. I bought the original FreeSwitch book in addition to the cookbook and while it is an excellent text with a lot of good information contained therein, there's still some info that's not in there that I'd like to see. For instance, I'm still left with questions about FS' capabilities and behavior with NAT handling in certain scenarios and that info doesn't appear to be very well covered anywhere that I've been able to find - probably due to the fact that FS is still a work in progress. Not many people seem to truly understand the details of FS' NAT functionality, so unless you're lucky and one of the developers who truly understands it has the time to answer your question, you'll have to wade through the code and experiment (which isn't always a bad thing, another one of the many advantages of open source) but that can be quite time-consuming. I was surprised to find that the full original FS book is floating around the 'Net in PDF form, not sure that the authors or the publisher would be particularly happy about that. If any of the AUTHORS want the link(s), contact me and I'll give the info I have to you. If your name doesn't appear on the cover of the FS book however, don't ask me for any links. :) - Phil -- View this message in context: http://freeswitch-users.2379917.n2.nabble.com/More-information-on-FreeSwitch... Sent from the freeswitch-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.