Ian Darwin wrote: > Ian Howard wrote: > >> We are planning to run asterisk on "routerboards", greap >> pieces of hardware, like soekris boards. We intend to use >> this for a few solar-powered sites. >> >> > greap = great and cheap? I really like the Soekris boards; > I run vanilla OpenBSD on them so vanilla Linux should be the > same (you just have to load it into a flash card, 128M or > 256M). > > Adding Asterisk to either OS on one of these should be trivial.
Loading Asterisk on the Soekris is *very* trivial: There's an Asterisk distro for it! www.astlinux.org Not only that, but Kris Kielhofner, the developer of Astlinux, is one solid, helpful guy. > There's no telephony interface to it, but for a cheap, > low-power (Solar? Neat!) standalone IP+VOIP router, that > should be excellent. > > Anyone on the list who is not familiar with Soekris, check out > www.soekris.com. The CPUs are a bit slow by today's Windoze XP > standards, but for their purpose > they are great. If you're running Asterisk, stay away from echo cancellation and transcoding. That's just because the processor is 266MHz. The Soekris is one fantastic little bit of gear (some would argue that it's a bit expensive for what you get, but it's a handy little box nonetheless). The Soekris is very light on the power requirements, runs cool, is solid-state, and well built. Jim. -- Jim Van Meggelen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.7.10/25 - Release Date: 21/06/2005
