I'd dearly love to be able to give an Asterisk demo by just toting my notebook, a PC/PCMCIA card, and a couple SIP phones. Is there any way to do this? Or should I look for a small-profile box with PCI slots, instead?
You might need to go for Asterisk@Home. Avery simple and easy to install version of Asterisk. Just burn the ISO image to a CD and boot with it and it will automatically install everything for you. However, it will wipe out all your HD and install CentOS then Asterisk. For SIP, you can start right away by using X-lite (SoftPhone) or any SIP IP phone. Walid -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Ken D'Ambrosio Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 6:09 PM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk on a notebook? I'd dearly love to be able to give an Asterisk demo by just toting my notebook, a PC/PCMCIA card, and a couple SIP phones. Is there any way to do this? Or should I look for a small-profile box with PCI slots, instead? _______________________________________________ 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
> I'd dearly love to be able to give an Asterisk demo by just toting my > notebook, a PC/PCMCIA card, and a couple SIP phones. Is there any way > to do this? Or should I look for a small-profile box with PCI slots, > instead?Sure, and it works just fine. I even have my laptop set up to create an iax link back to our office asterisk, and place calls through it for the demo. You really only need the pci slots if you actually need a digium card in the box.
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On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 11:09:28AM -0500, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:> I'd dearly love to be able to give an Asterisk demo by just toting my > notebook, a PC/PCMCIA card, and a couple SIP phones. Is there any way > to do this? Or should I look for a small-profile box with PCI slots, > instead?I've done this. Not as a demo, but as a production box. If the laptop has built-in ethernet, you don't even need a PCMCIA card. Just use small boxes like Sipura SPA-3000 or 2000 for your FXO and FXS interfaces and bring a small ethernet switch and it's all good. I use one in production for my "home" PBX because of the handy built-in UPS :) Of course, you will want to be running Linux on the laptop, but then what else would you want to be running anyway? :) -Dorn