Hi Kristan,
The interrupt load is what I am most worried about. At most it would be two
spans. Echo cancellation is not required as 80% or more would be fax
traffic, the rest IVR and voicemail.
I am aware of AstLinux but unfortunately for this particular application the
Soekris OS is gonna be FreeBSD as the Soekris is primarily a router with the
PRI piggybacking. As far as I can tell, I don't need asterisk installed,
just zaptel and libpri. I guess I'll find out. The major reason for this
is that I can't physically stick the PRI card in my * server (don't ask!) so
this is one of the alternatives I have dreamed up, along with setting up the
Soekris with the PRI and IAX2 trunking to the * box but I think TDMoE would
be much more efficient. At the end of the day I might just have to get a
bigger * server to get the card in, but doing it this way would be an
interesting hack and also allows some sort of scripted failover. Eg, if the
Soekris sees that a * server has died it can stop the zaptel service, swap
in different config files pointing to a mac address in a backup * server and
away we go :)
Craig
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kristian Kielhofner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"
<asterisk-users@lists.digium.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 6:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Soekris and Asterisk
Craig Guy wrote:
Has anyone on the list used a Soekris engineering PC as a TDM - Ethernet
bridge? For example something like a net4801 with a TE110p in it and
then using TDMoE to get it into a bigger server where the call processing
proper will occur.
Anyone know if it might handle a quadspan card ok? (no transcoding, just
pure PRI to TDMoE bridging).
Craig
Craig,
It all depends on where you are going to do what (PRI, echo cancel, etc).
Also, for four spans the interrupt load alone could probably saturate the
CPU.
If you want to try, AstLinux will be an excellent start...
http://www.astlinux.org
P.S. - I created AstLinux, so of course I would recommend it!
--
Kristian Kielhofner
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