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Can I hook a regular phone line and regular phone to FXO and FXS ports on my router...?

I've got a Cisco 3810-V router with a DSP and an AVM that has one FXO and one FXS port.

Do I have to use special Cisco phones or some special phone line configuration, or can I just hook the normal phone line in my house to the FXO port, then take a regular RJ11 phone and hook it into the FXS and get a dial tone?
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awesome. yes i'm familiar with POTS, I do T1 installs a lot and am about to take my CCNA test... just know nothing about telephony. someone was telling me that an FXO port had to hook up to a PBX or some other gateway/exchange and that didn't sound right to me.
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