I've used slackware 10, 10.1, 10.2 and Fedora Core 4.
Generally I'm running 2.4 kernel that come stock with slackware.
Recently I've been testing the 2.6 kernel on 10.2
The only reason I use slackware is that the /etc subsystem is vaguely
BSDish. If someone knows a Linux system that looks exactly like a
xBSD let me know!
I wouldn't worry about what distribution of linux you use. They
should all work well for your purposes. The kernel is the same
across the distributions(I'm sure there are exceptions). I generally
dislike distributions that install everything including the kitchen
sink. Gimp, KDE, Apache, Samba etc. All nice but I don;t want them
on a Asterisk server.
I've not heard about any problems with Asterisk on specific Linux
distributions.
If you are getting all your traffic over SIP/IAX and don;t require
any hardware drivers I think FreeBSD would probably be fine as an
Asterisk server. As the load increases the tweaking for FreeBSD is
more of an unknown then Linux. I've no idea how a dual CPU FreeBSD
Asterisk server would perform for example.
To build a solid system. Test, test and test again. It also helps if
you have access to other phone equipment to cross connect with in a
lab setting. IE PRI/T1 PBX, channel bank, SIP phones etc. I can
test out different scenario's before putting them in the field. It's
very helpful for debugging.
So far I've not tried SIPP for load testing but I'd like to do some
of that soon.
If you try to run Asterisk on a $200 cheapo PC with a crappy
motherboard/power supply and use Analog FXO cards you are going to
get what you paid for. If you are building a serious Asterisk server
and plan on spending less that $1K (before Digium/Sangoma cards) then
you are buying the wrong machine IMO. It all depends on what your
time is worth. RAID is a must for every machine at this point in time.
I was at Astricon back in November and it was impressive to hear
about some of the installations out there. Thousands of SIP calls at
a time on the same box. Almost 10 000 registrations at a time on
some servers. One company had build a 6 Asterisk server setup to
serve an entire city with 1500 Polycom SIP phones.
-bill
On 9-Dec-05, at 12:30 PM, Dean Billing wrote:
William -
William Lloyd wrote:
On 9-Dec-05, at 7:18 AM, Kim Culhan wrote:
> ...
There are so many little issues that can come up in VOIP on a
"supported" hardware platform like Linux that it's not a battle
I'm prepared to fight at this point.
I'd be curious as to which Linux you use? I look for asterisk
installation information on Linux and there seem to be caveats
about all of them. I have received several warnings about using
FreeBSD and the asterisk install was certainly difficult and
problematic. So which Linux would make a good industrial strength
server?
Regards -- Dean
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