Hi All! Can anyone direct me to any websites / manufacturers out there who are making small, put-it-in-the-closet-and-forget-it type systems for building routers, home gateway servers, that sort of thing? My fantasy machine for this purpose would be along the lines of a mini-itx system with external power supply, dual Ethernet interfaces on board, and one PCI slot available. If it had one real serial port on it, that would be great too. Am I dreaming, or does it exist for a reasonable price? I would be willing to go the 500 MHz - 1 GHz range. Something without a fan would be really nice. I'm basically looking for a system that someone out there is stamping out in quantities and isn't too outrageous in price. Does it exist, and if so who sells it? It seems to me a system like the above described would be perfect for building out a home gateway / home asterisk server. Matt Hardeman PaperSoft -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20030714/64ddc06e/attachment.htm
On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 11:37, Matthew Hardeman wrote:> Hi All! > Can anyone direct me to any websites / manufacturers out there who are > making small, put-it-in-the-closet-and-forget-it type systems for > building routers, home gateway servers, that sort of thing? > > My fantasy machine for this purpose would be along the lines of a > mini-itx system with external power supply, dual Ethernet interfaces > on board, and one PCI slot available. If it had one real serial port > on it, that would be great too. Am I dreaming, or does it exist for a > reasonable price? I would be willing to go the 500 MHz ? 1 GHz > range. Something without a fan would be really nice. I?m basically > looking for a system that someone out there is stamping out in > quantities and isn?t too outrageous in price. Does it exist, and if > so who sells it? > > It seems to me a system like the above described would be perfect for > building out a home gateway / home asterisk server?Just because a company makes a lot doesn't mean the price drops. The type of device you are asking for is built by cisco, but the cost isn't near what you asked for. Asterisk can fill that role for the most part, but it expects you to do some work to get it there. -- Steven Critchfield <critch@basesys.com>
I live in California, and saw one of those "cube" PC's in Frye's for a few hundred dollars (<$400??). Really tiny, everything contained inside. Had one PCI slot. I thought it would be nice for demos since it was so easily shipped. I think the processor was 800 MHz or so. Would have preferred 2 PCI slots... I'm in the UK now - when I'm back next week I'll try and find the manufacturer. Regards Scott Scott M. Stingel Emerging Voice Technology Inc. Palo Alto, California and London, England Email: scott@evtmedia.com URL: www.evtmedia.com -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Matthew Hardeman Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 5:38 PM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Hardware Vendors Hi All! Can anyone direct me to any websites / manufacturers out there who are making small, put-it-in-the-closet-and-forget-it type systems for building routers, home gateway servers, that sort of thing? My fantasy machine for this purpose would be along the lines of a mini-itx system with external power supply, dual Ethernet interfaces on board, and one PCI slot available. If it had one real serial port on it, that would be great too. Am I dreaming, or does it exist for a reasonable price? I would be willing to go the 500 MHz - 1 GHz range. Something without a fan would be really nice. I'm basically looking for a system that someone out there is stamping out in quantities and isn't too outrageous in price. Does it exist, and if so who sells it? It seems to me a system like the above described would be perfect for building out a home gateway / home asterisk server. Matt Hardeman PaperSoft
asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com wrote on 07/14/2003 12:37:33 PM:> My fantasy machine for this purpose would be along the lines of a > mini-itx system with external power supply, dual Ethernet interfaces > on board, and one PCI slot available. If it had one real serial > port on it, that would be great too. Am I dreaming, or does it > exist for a reasonable price? I would be willing to go the 500 MHz > ? 1 GHz range. Something without a fan would be really nice. I?m > basically looking for a system that someone out there is stamping > out in quantities and isn?t too outrageous in price. Does it exist, > and if so who sells it?www.caseoutlet.com Via Eden 533MHz processor, no fans whatsoever. Runs like a PII 400MHz. They have cases that have 2 PCI slots. That's the biggest limitation: lack of PCI slots. We use these to sell Linux-based firewall computers for clients. They have run for well over a year with exactly zero crashes. With no moving parts (not even hard drives: we use DOM for the firewalls), there isn't a lot to go wrong. Having said all of that, I don't think they'll make good Asterisk boxes. 2 PCI slots isn't much and 400MHz PII-type performance isn't great (though you can get 750MHz or so of PIII performance from the new 1GHz CPU's if you don't mind a CPU fan). But if you can live with that, they're very nice. Don't forget to target the i586 architecture. The VIA CPU's don't have an instruction (CMOV? CMPXCHNG? something like that) that the Intels do and that CGG uses with an i686 target. Unfortunately, the VIA gets detected as an i686... Tim Massey