[Asterisk-Users] dialup internet via Asterisk
I have a customer with 2/3rds of a PRI turned up for his PM3, which handles incoming calls for dialup customers. He's offered me the remainder of the PRI at cost, assuming he can still get calls through to his PM3. I know it's fairly easy to have incoming calls (with his DID) routed to his PM3 and my incoming DIDs routed to me; however will he see any performance or connectivity problems on his PM3? I'd likely just get a quad-T1 card (or a pair of single T1 cards) and have one facing the telco, one facing his PM3, and SIP or IAX2 facing all of my stuff, which would be on a separate machine. Has anyone ever done this before? ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Booting * from CF
You should be able to boot a full system from a 32M card without a problem. > >I've read J.R. Richardson's paper "Create an Embedded Asterisk Server" > >which outlines making a Debian server that boots from a compressed disc > >image on a CF card. I'm really interested in this as I want my * server > >to be more like an appliance than a PC. However, the paper is only an > >outline and some of the processes of pruning the installation down to a > >minimum are beyond my Linux skills. > > > >That being the case, and CF cards being bigger and cheaper every month, > >does anyone have an experience building a server that simply boots from > >a 512 MB or 1 GB CF card? Is that big enough? 256M is probably the cheapest card to get in terms of megs required to dollar ratio at the moment, with 1G cards getting cheaper by the day... Locally wal-mart has Lexar 32M CF cards for $18 Canadian. They make great routers. :) ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] UPS for Asterisk
> And, in fact, some drives *do* have problems with sudden outages. Some Relative to the cost of a cheap UPS, downtime is much much much more expensive. You can power pretty much any single server you want for ~$150 CDN, and shut it down cleanly when the power goes out. Compare $150 with the cost of rebuilding the machine and it's money well spent. That doesn't even consider the screaming customers. Every machine I have in the field with a hard disk has a UPS - sometimes only a 350VA UPS, but a UPS none the less. The machines that boot from CF cards are a different story... ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] UPS for Asterisk
> If you need a rocksolid solution have a look at astlinux that can boot * > from a compact flash card in read only mode which makes it very hard to > break :) > You should be able to boot Asterisk using slackware as a base from a 64M CF card or even from a 64M bootable USB memory key. If you use ReiserFS or something similar for the drive that stores all your voicemail, etc then it should come back without a problem as well. Of course you want to make sure the system shuts down cleanly too... ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk on MS Virtual Server
> Another way to go would be to spend your upgrade money on one of these: > > https://www.rpanetwork.co.uk/catalogue/basket.rhtm? > add=1&productID=180544&pi=1 > It's a low powered server which runs asterisk quite nicely. > Installed one with an E1 card last week and it seems fine so far. > I had RPA load Suse instead of OpenBSD for better asterisk support. These are fantastic machines - we've been buying them as parts and using them for firewalls, routers, etc. and they only draw ~20W of power for a full system. You can also boot them from Compact Flash cards or USB Memory keys so you can produce a system with no hard drive. If you drop to the 600MHz CPU, they don't even need a CPU fan. ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: load balancing 20 asterisk servers
> LVS is a single point of failure, but probably so is your router/switch. > Consider the case where the LVS *is* the router, use good quality > components for the PC (we should all know about this part on this list), We've used the via-based eden motherboards for this sort of thing - rock solid, and no CPU fan either. amazing machines. ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Linux OS platforms
> Which linux is prefereable ? for asterisk ? As long as you know how to rebuild your kernel, how to install modules, and how to manage basic unix security, the best Linux for Asterisk is the one you're most comfortable with. ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] drive space for voice mail
> Do a search through the archives. Some IDE subsystems are known to hold > interupts too long and they interfere with the need for Zap devices to > be services 1000 times per second. If you don't service the zap devices > on time and without misses you will have degraded voice quality and > possibly, if on PRI, you could screw up a call setup or tear down. What about unmasking IDE IRQs (supported in Linux, at least) - does that help at all? My biggest complaint about IDE is the varying controller qualities. At least if they all sucked or all worked well it would be one thing, but they're all over the board... ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
