I forgot about the plug devices. That is a better idea. What about network interface. USB is fast enough but do we have usb to eth?
On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 12:03:08AM -0600, Gustin Johnson wrote: > There are already plug devices running Linux. Right now Arm seems to be > architecture of choice, coupled with Debian the underlying platform is > already here. What is needed is the client facing software. > > Sent from my Android device. Please excuse my brevity. > On Jul 4, 2011 10:04 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yes it would work like that. They likely don't need much power but they > will need to be able to output a "POTS" service if they are to be used in > analogue homes. I've not looked into the digital requirments but that would > make a great deal of sense to support. Companies like Dilogic can supply the > telephony interface cards. > > > > The OS could be Linux or likely a flavour of *BSD. I would prefer OpenBSD > but that is only because I happen to use it on my servers and firewalls. > > > > Basically it needs an RJ45. Thus a little netbook would do the job if we > can find USB telephone interface units and we can pick up the netbooks for > like $169. > > > > With a wifi interface it could even support a smart phone! In fact a smart > phone could do the job but IMHO they are pretty overpriced. > > > > If people want cheaper then any old PC from the PII days on will work. > These machines have PCI bus interfaces which Dialogic makes cards for. THing > is old computers like that actually are more expensive because they draw a > lot more power than a netbook. With a netbook I would expect we would be > throtling to the slowest cpu speed and I do not think we would need other > than a solid state drive on it. > > > > Now if we get something like an ALIX which has multiple NICs then I > suspect the box could provide firewall + telephone services. > > > > Software would probably be Asterisk. > > > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 09:47:20PM -0600, Joe S wrote: > >> These articles look interesting. I'm not that knowledgeable on > >> how the Internet works. Would the boxes contain servers that hook > >> up to each other like a private a private network? > >> > >> Thanks > >> > >> On Monday 04 July 2011 19:50:11 Mel Walters wrote: > >> > Sounds good. The more people (and ideas) involved the better. > >> > I have some lectures and talks related to all this that I hope > >> > will encourage us to even spearhead something good. > >> > > >> > Mel > >> > > >> > On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 01:05 -0600, [email protected] wrote: > >> > > I would like to work with you on this. > >> > > > >> > > On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 12:02:49AM -0600, Mel Walters wrote: > >> > > > Proposed solution to freedom on the net: > >> > > > > >> > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/nyregion/16about.html?_r > >> > > > =2&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1297865022-0JDUtCoG16GYaoGy9MDMyg > >> > > > > >> > > > http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/02/16/freedom-box-needs-a > >> > > > -good-user-interface/ > >> > > > > >> > > > I am attempting to put together some strong proposals that > >> > > > have been brought to light. Combined with wifi mesh this > >> > > > could wnd up lending to a more scalable and robust > >> > > > network too. > >> > > > > >> > > > Mel > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> clug-talk mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > >> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > >> **Please remove these lines when replying > > > > _______________________________________________ > > clug-talk mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > **Please remove these lines when replying > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
