There are also the sveasoft.com firmwares as well for the wrt54g(s) and
a few other linksys boxes.

The other thing you could look into is a cisco pix like a 501, though
definitely more expensive and harder to configure it is smart enough to
do things like rewrites to the sip headers.

Thanks
John

-----Original Message-----
From: David Cook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 5:40 PM
To: John Van Ostrand
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] Good router for Asterisk

I have a preference for the Linksys units, but as the previous poster 
suggests replacement firmware is very advanced (In other words, treat 
the box as an inexpensive embeded plafform).

Look at http://www.openwrt.org. Not only will it support the use of 
asterisk behind it, you can load asterisk _on_ it. It has enough 
horsepower to support 2 transcoded calls simultaneously when used as a 
PBX. I have my site running on a full server and two satellites running 
asterisk on the Linksys box (1 on Sympatico & 1 on Rogers) all three 
with an integrated dial plan. Works like a champ.

dbc.

John Van Ostrand wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 17:13 -0500, Mark Palser wrote:
>   
>> Does anybody have any recommendations/favourites? I have tried 3
different 
>> routers and experienced 3 different problems. D-Link worked fine for
SIP, 
>> but I could not get IAX to register. Linksys worked fine for half a
day, 
>> then just stopped, reset, factory reset, nothing. Finally Netgear,
both SIP 
>> and IAX would register but sound was one way, not only for SIP but
also for 
>> IAX. Right now I'm using the D-Link and will have to do without my
IAX 
>> clients, D-Link tech support suggested I RMA the router, that helps
me out a 
>> whole lot......................... 
>>     
>
> I have tried LinkSys, D-Link, Netgear and other nameless routers and I
> support a variety in our customer base. For my personal opinion I use
> IPTables on Linux when I can. It's really powerful and supports QoS as
> well as traffic shaping and I can do diagnostics with it.
>
> For cases where Linux doesn't make sense it's a Linksys. I have to
admit
> though the two Netgear's I've used have worked fine and been quite
> attractive (the translucent models that is.)
>
> How about a Linksys running Linux? Get the best of both worlds. Check
> out
>
>   
>> http://www.linux.com/howtos/Linksys-Blue-Box-Router-HOWTO/index.shtml
>>     
>
> See the section on Software hacking. This might seem like a lot of
work but it sounds like you need options.
>
>   


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