I have a preference for the Linksys units, but as the previous poster
suggests replacement firmware is very advanced (In other words, treat
the box as an inexpensive embeded plafform).
Look at http://www.openwrt.org. Not only will it support the use of
asterisk behind it, you can load asterisk _on_ it. It has enough
horsepower to support 2 transcoded calls simultaneously when used as a
PBX. I have my site running on a full server and two satellites running
asterisk on the Linksys box (1 on Sympatico & 1 on Rogers) all three
with an integrated dial plan. Works like a champ.
dbc.
John Van Ostrand wrote:
On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 17:13 -0500, Mark Palser wrote:
Does anybody have any recommendations/favourites? I have tried 3 different
routers and experienced 3 different problems. D-Link worked fine for SIP,
but I could not get IAX to register. Linksys worked fine for half a day,
then just stopped, reset, factory reset, nothing. Finally Netgear, both SIP
and IAX would register but sound was one way, not only for SIP but also for
IAX. Right now I'm using the D-Link and will have to do without my IAX
clients, D-Link tech support suggested I RMA the router, that helps me out a
whole lot.........................
I have tried LinkSys, D-Link, Netgear and other nameless routers and I
support a variety in our customer base. For my personal opinion I use
IPTables on Linux when I can. It's really powerful and supports QoS as
well as traffic shaping and I can do diagnostics with it.
For cases where Linux doesn't make sense it's a Linksys. I have to admit
though the two Netgear's I've used have worked fine and been quite
attractive (the translucent models that is.)
How about a Linksys running Linux? Get the best of both worlds. Check
out
http://www.linux.com/howtos/Linksys-Blue-Box-Router-HOWTO/index.shtml
See the section on Software hacking. This might seem like a lot of work but it
sounds like you need options.
