I thought I saw a Soekris embedded in the Digium booth photos, can you run Asterisk on one of these? How? I'd be interested in it for a back pbx, given the reliability. In fact, might want to move my home pbx to this also. Chris Mason
Chris Mason (Lists) wrote:>I thought I saw a Soekris embedded in the Digium booth photos, can you run >Asterisk on one of these? How? I'd be interested in it for a back pbx, given >the reliability. In fact, might want to move my home pbx to this also. > >Chris Mason > >_______________________________________________ >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 > >If I'm not mistaken, the Soekris hardware does fine for a few voice channels - but not a very high performance piece of hardware. For example, if you wanted a full solution as a VPN, Asterisk server, media streaming via ICEs, web server, email server, etc... it will start to lack in performace when compared to a VIA EDEN system which can use DDR memory and such.
See: http://www.kriscompanies.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=3 damn cool. -----Original Message----- From: Chris Mason (Lists) [mailto:lists@masonc.com] Sent: Monday, May 30, 2005 7:14 AM To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion' Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk on Soekris I thought I saw a Soekris embedded in the Digium booth photos, can you run Asterisk on one of these? How? I'd be interested in it for a back pbx, given the reliability. In fact, might want to move my home pbx to this also. Chris Mason _______________________________________________ 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
Chris Mason (Lists) wrote:> I thought I saw a Soekris embedded in the Digium booth photos, can you run > Asterisk on one of these? How? I'd be interested in it for a back pbx, given > the reliability. In fact, might want to move my home pbx to this also. > > Chris MasonChris, You sure did see a Soekris board! They actually can run Asterisk quite well, but you will want to check out my project (AstLinux) for more information: http://www.kriscompanies.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=3 -- Kristian Kielhofner
On Mon, 30 May 2005, Chris Mason (Lists) wrote:> I thought I saw a Soekris embedded in the Digium booth photos, can you run > Asterisk on one of these? How? I'd be interested in it for a back pbx, given > the reliability. In fact, might want to move my home pbx to this also.http://www.kriscompanies.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=3 Kristian has made it incredibly easy to get Asterisk up and running on a Soekris board. -- Vice President of N2Net, a New Age Consulting Service, Inc. Company http://www.n2net.net Where everything clicks into place! KP-216-121-ST
> So, I'm wondering does anyone have real-life > comparisons on the failure rate of a PC compared to the failure rate of > some of these options??Obviously, an embedded PC or something that is designed such as a Sokeris is made to last a *long* time, but in my experience, a Tier 1 PC (older Compaq, HP, *not* consumer) PC fares well. I use old Tier 1 PC's for utility jobs like small firewalls or FTP servers or hell even homebrew SAN's and the like, and they just keep chugging. I've never seen a power supply die on a Deskpro, and I've been using them for > 10 years. They seem immune to the stupid minor problems that bring clones to a halt, like dust in the fans. I'd never use a clone in an an application where the life expectancy is greater than a year. I sleep well at night knowing that all of those old PC's will be quietly running and doing their jobs just fine the next day. Also, Tier 1 PC's typically are well documented, you can still get drivers for them, and the design is consitient and *made* for business applications. For example, every Deskpro ever made allows you to run it headless, there's an option for it right in the BIOS.