Hi there, I've got a few systems like the one you describe running painlessly for several customers.
On Saturday 10 March 2007 19:10, Mail Lists wrote: > I'm trying to put together a low cost - low powers PBX appliance for > several customers. I have purchased a couple of the soekris net4801 boards > and have asterisk up and running on them fine but they just don't quite cut > it in the processing power department. I've been able to get about 10 > simultaneous SIP calls with simple ulaw (no encoding decoding). While this > might be OK for a very small business or home I just don't think it leaves > a lot of overhead to do anything else. I found out the same thing and settled for Mini-ITX as well. Perhaps the new Soekris net5501 that is about to be released will help you? > I am going to TRY to run the system from flash memory one way or another - > I realize the hoops I might have to jump through to prevent a large number > of read/write cycles but I'd really like to have the whole thing solid > state... Maybe someone has a better idea regarding program storage? I've been running off CD and Compact Flash without any problems. I've created a custom LiveCD so it's more or less hardware independant. It copies itself into RAM once it boots. Though it can easily be used with CF only. > > Failing that I suppose I would settle for running the routing/firewalling > on linux. I've just found the linux networking tools very awkward up until > now - perhaps someone know of a linux distribution - or tool - that makes > routing/firewall/NAT as painless as on openbsd? Maybe I just need to sit > down for a day and learn the tool properly ;) I've got Shorewall and firehol on my CD as well as cbqinit and htbinit. Though I don't actually use them currently. -- Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (Jaervosz)
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