Newbee here.... I would like to play around with Asterisk a little. First, I need to prepare a server with FreeBSD. It's a PII 433mHz/256mb box. Good enough? Then install Asterisk. I have a broadband (cable) internet presence. Could I do anything with this connection and Asterisk? Thanks, Rayasterisk --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20041204/361e1eb8/attachment.htm
On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 14:12:04 -0800 (PST), Ray Jender <rayasterisk@yahoo.com> wrote:> > Newbee here....Ray, You should be fine with your setup. BSD can be a little finicky to get working sometimes, but if you're familiar enough with it you will be OK. I have a P133 w/ 128mb ram running my home * box and I don't have any problems with it. My wife doesn't even complain. For dialtone checkout any of the following. Nufone, Voicepulse connect, broadvoice, voipjet. All of them have varying strengths. You will be able to connect to any of them over your broadband. Cuddle up to the wiki for a while. There is more information there than you could possibly need. Asterisk is an adventure. Hope you're not busy for the next couple months! -Chuji
Ray Jender wrote:> Newbee here.... > > I would like to play around with Asterisk a little. > > First, I need to prepare a server with FreeBSD. > It's a PII 433mHz/256mb box. Good enough? > Then install Asterisk. > > I have a broadband (cable) internet presence. > Could I do anything with this connection and > Asterisk? > > Thanks, > > Rayasterisk >Ray, I hate to say this (I am a huge FreeBSD fan), but I believe that each OS has it's own strengths. While FreeBSD isn't any better or worse than Linux for Asterisk, Linux was the platform that it was originally developed on. It sounds like you are new so I will suggest that you stick with Linux for now and enjoy more support options, better hardware support, and more documentation. I have run Asterisk on both (even inside a FreeBSD jail) and I will say that I prefer to run it in Linux because as of now it just works better. My web servers, mail servers, etc, etc, etc. can run FreeBSD because I happen to like FreeBSD for those tasks. But not for running * (as of now, that could change...) That hardware should be fine, but then again I don't even know what you will be doing with it. There are people that run * on P133's. But like anything else, don't expect it to be able to work magic just because it is Linux and OSS. Hardware limits are still hardware limits. I would say though, that for most of the common stuff that you will want to play around (dabble) with, this machine sounds fine (some would say more than fine). I have run it on much less.... http://www.krisk.org/astlinux/ As for cable internet, it all depends. How much bandwidth do you have, are you behind NAT? What kind of packet loss/latency/jitter do you typically experience? If I were you I would just give it a shot and see how it works! P.S. - use kernel 2.6 if you can -- Kristian Kielhofner
Ray Jender wrote:> Newbee here.... > > I would like to play around with Asterisk a little. > > First, I need to prepare a server with FreeBSD. > It's a PII 433mHz/256mb box. Good enough? > Then install Asterisk. > > I have a broadband (cable) internet presence. > Could I do anything with this connection and > Asterisk? > > Thanks, > > Rayasterisk >Ray, I hate to say this (I am a huge FreeBSD fan), but I believe that each OS has it's own strengths. While FreeBSD isn't any better or worse than Linux for Asterisk, Linux was the platform that it was originally developed on. It sounds like you are new so I will suggest that you stick with Linux for now and enjoy more support options, better hardware support, and more documentation. I have run Asterisk on both (even inside a FreeBSD jail) and I will say that I prefer to run it in Linux because as of now it just works better. My web servers, mail servers, etc, etc, etc. can run FreeBSD because I happen to like FreeBSD for those tasks. But not for running * (as of now, that could change...) That hardware should be fine, but then again I don't even know what you will be doing with it. There are people that run * on P133's. But like anything else, don't expect it to be able to work magic just because it is Linux and OSS. Hardware limits are still hardware limits. I would say though, that for most of the common stuff that you will want to play around (dabble) with, this machine sounds fine (some would say more than fine). I have run it on much less.... http://www.krisk.org/astlinux/ As for cable internet, it all depends. How much bandwidth do you have, are you behind NAT? What kind of packet loss/latency/jitter do you typically experience? If I were you I would just give it a shot and see how it works! P.S. - use kernel 2.6 if you can -- Kristian Kielhofner
Hello:
On my ppoint of view, it is a good hardware to start
But the performance depends of ...
- How many stations you will have calling a the same time, to the
"outside" world ?
- What kind codecs you will use ?
Take a look to:
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+Hardware
Or simple go to
http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk
or
www.asterisk.org
And you will find ALL info that you need to start
Hope this help !
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Ing. Julio Alvarez Tejera
Unix Trends
*BSD, Solaris & Linux
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"extremely stable systems"
----- Original Message -----
From: Ray Jender
To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com
Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2004 4:12 PM
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] asterisk dabbling...
Newbee here....
I would like to play around with Asterisk a little.
First, I need to prepare a server with FreeBSD.
It's a PII 433mHz/256mb box. Good enough?
Then install Asterisk.
I have a broadband (cable) internet presence.
Could I do anything with this connection and
Asterisk?
Thanks,
Rayasterisk
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