On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Chris Albertson wrote: > "Smallest" Asterisk server? No. That old Gateway box must > be about 2 cubic feet. 1.5 ft^3 at a minimum. I've got one > that is about 0.2 ft^3 a factor of maybe 10 smaller.
Hehehe.. As far as "Form Factor" goes, I'm sure there are smaller boxes out there. How about "Most resource challenged Asterisk server ever? :) > I've installed a working Asterisk server on an older Toshiba > notebok PC. The Notebook has a 144Mhz Pentium, 80MB RAM > and a 2GB disk. For very low volume VOIP-only in does OK > > Advantages of a Notebook: > 1) Very small, no fan, no noise. > 2) Comes with built-in battry backup > 3) WHat else can you do with a 144Mhz PC? > 4) Can run softphone or Asterisk console phone using > built-in sound > > Disadvangates > 1) How to connect it to the PSTN? > > If someone would write a zap driver for the a common PC card > modem (do they still sell these?) then we'd have a realy nice > FXO/VIOP gateway. Most notebook have two PC card slots > > I have an _even older_ Notebook can (and this is the good part) > has a docking staion that has a PCI bus) So I'm thinking of > putting the digium card(s) in there. The PC is a 486DX2 at > 100Mhz with 16MB RAM. I couldn't get it to work due to the > 16MB RAM but after reading the below maybe I'll try again. > > > --- Greg Boehnlein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello all, > > Saturday night, after a couple of shots of bourbon, I realized > > that I had an old PC sitting in the garage that I could use as an > > Asterisk > > gateway if I just blew the dust off it and reloaded it with a modern > > Linux > > distribution. In my characteristically impulsive manner, I grabbed it > > and > > started cleaning it up so that I could put it in my office without my > > wife > > having a fit. > > The sytem is an old Gateway system, that I used to use as an > > X-terminal. Nothing special really, P-133, 16 megs of ram, 3 PCI > > slots, > > 3.2 gig hard drive. The box booted and I was greated with a RH9 login > > > > screen from my X-server. > > After imaging the hard drive over to my server for backup > > purposes, I proceeded to try installing Fedora, RH9, RH8 and finally > > RH73 > > without any luck. The 16 megs of ram was just too small to do the > > installation. So I grabbed a Debian 3.0 netinstall image and got the > > box > > online and running. > > 8 hours later, "apt-get dist-upgrade" completed and the box was > > running Debian 3.0 unstable. Now it was time install Asterisk. An > > "apt-cache search asterisk" revealed that Debian unstable has pkg > > files > > available. Yay! That'll save me the time of bulding everything on > > this > > box so all I will need to do is rebuild the Zaptel modules. > > 20 minutes later, I had my Zaptel modules built and was ready to > > give it a whirl, so I loaded the wcfxo module and started Asterisk. > > My > > GrandStream registered against the server and I was able to able to > > place > > calls out the PSTN using the box. > > Initially, I was prepared for this to be an excercise in futility, > > but I have been extremely surprised by the results. I can support up > > to 3 > > concurrent SIP sessions before I start to get degraded quality, and > > the > > box appears to be rock solid. I have it registered against our > > production > > Asterisk server at work over my Cable modem, and my staff can simply > > dial > > 3xxx to ring my extension at home. Voicemail works just fine and with > > the > > addition of the "Asterisk-sounds" pkg inbond callers now know that we > > are > > out "Gambling and getting drunk" when they call. > > > > Is this the smallest Asterisk server ever? :) > > > > asterisk:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo > > processor : 0 > > vendor_id : GenuineIntel > > cpu family : 5 > > model : 2 > > model name : Pentium 75 - 200 > > stepping : 12 > > cpu MHz : 132.957 > > fdiv_bug : no > > hlt_bug : no > > f00f_bug : yes > > coma_bug : no > > fpu : yes > > fpu_exception : yes > > cpuid level : 1 > > wp : yes > > flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 > > bogomips : 265.42 > > > > asterisk:~# free > > total used free shared buffers > > cached > > Mem: 13984 13696 288 0 1372 > > 868 > > -/+ buffers/cache: 11456 2528 > > Swap: 92728 17316 75412 > > > > asterisk:~# ps aux > > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME > > COMMAND > > root 1 0.0 0.6 1492 84 ? S Feb02 0:00 init > > [2] > > root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Feb02 0:00 > > [keventd] > > root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SWN Feb02 0:00 > > [ksoftirqd_CPU0] > > root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Feb02 0:14 > > [kswapd] > > root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Feb02 0:00 > > [bdflush] > > root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Feb02 0:00 > > [kupdated] > > root 85 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? DW Feb02 0:01 > > [kjournald] > > root 292 0.0 1.1 1540 164 ? S Feb02 0:00 > > /sbin/syslogd > > root 295 0.0 0.0 2156 4 ? S Feb02 0:01 > > /sbin/klogd > > root 309 0.0 0.0 1520 0 ? SW Feb02 0:00 > > /usr/sbin/inetd > > root 316 0.0 0.4 3064 56 ? S Feb02 0:00 > > /usr/sbin/sshd > > root 325 0.0 0.9 1752 128 ? S Feb02 0:00 > > /usr/sbin/cron > > root 329 0.0 0.4 1488 56 tty1 S Feb02 0:00 > > /sbin/getty 38400 tty1 > > root 330 0.0 0.4 1488 56 tty2 S Feb02 0:00 > > /sbin/getty 38400 tty2 > > root 2609 0.0 0.2 2276 40 ? S Feb02 0:00 > > /bin/sh /usr/sbin/safe_asterisk > > root 2611 0.0 7.3 42144 1032 ? S Feb02 0:03 > > asterisk -vvvg -c > > root 2612 0.0 7.3 42144 1032 ? S Feb02 0:00 > > asterisk -vvvg -c > > root 2613 0.0 7.3 42144 1032 ? S Feb02 0:00 > > asterisk -vvvg -c > > root 2614 0.0 7.3 42144 1032 ? S Feb02 0:00 > > asterisk -vvvg -c > > root 2615 0.0 7.3 42144 1032 ? S Feb02 0:00 > > asterisk -vvvg -c > > root 2616 0.0 7.3 42144 1032 ? S Feb02 0:00 > > asterisk -vvvg -c > > root 2617 0.0 7.3 42144 1032 ? S Feb02 0:21 > > asterisk -vvvg -c > > root 2618 0.0 7.3 42144 1032 ? S Feb02 0:13 > > asterisk -vvvg -c > > root 2619 0.0 7.3 42144 1032 ? S Feb02 0:00 > > asterisk -vvvg -c > > root 2620 0.4 7.3 42144 1032 ? S Feb02 7:52 > > asterisk -vvvg -c > > root 2621 0.0 7.3 42144 1032 ? S Feb02 0:00 > > asterisk -vvvg -c > > root 2622 0.0 7.3 42144 1032 ? S Feb02 0:00 > > asterisk -vvvg -c > > root 2625 0.0 7.3 42144 1032 ? S Feb02 0:00 > > asterisk -vvvg -c > > root 2626 0.0 7.3 42144 1032 ? S Feb02 0:00 > > asterisk -vvvg -c > > root 2627 0.0 7.3 42144 1032 ? S Feb02 0:00 > > asterisk -vvvg -c > > root 2628 0.0 7.3 42144 1032 ? S Feb02 0:00 > > asterisk -vvvg -c > > root 2629 0.0 7.3 42144 1032 ? S Feb02 0:00 > > asterisk -vvvg -c > > > > -- > > Vice President of N2Net, a New Age Consulting Service, Inc. > > Company > > http://www.n2net.net Where everything clicks into place! > > KP-216-121-ST > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > > ===== > Chris Albertson > Home: 310-376-1029 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cell: 310-990-7550 > Office: 310-336-5189 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > KG6OMK > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. 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