Lonnie,
Thanks for your input. I am going to try it out and remove pfsense out of
the network and replace it with Astlinux.
I follow your guide and the Hardware monitoring is not working even with
your sensors.conf.
Any ideas?
TIA.
Thank You,
Fernando Fuentes
DIGITALVOIPNET.COM
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Lonnie Abelbeck <[email protected]
> wrote:
> Fernando,
>
> Placing AstLinux at the edge of your network acting as your Firewall
> (Router, VPN, DNS, etc.) plus PBX is a great solution. This is what I do
> in my personal installations. An extra benefit is to give Asterisk a
> public IPv4 address without NAT at the server end, which simplifies the
> configuration for remote SIP client access, particularly if the public IPv4
> is dynamic.
>
> Clearly our Firewall tab is not pfsense, but AstLinux should be able to do
> the core firewall features pfsense provides. If any are missing be sure to
> let us know here.
>
> As far as an Atom board being overkill for AstLinux, a few random thoughts:
>
> 1) Here in the US, DOCSIS 3.0 cable modems are now offering 100 Mbps down,
> that data rate alone will max-out an Alix or net5501 box.
>
> 2) A 1.8GHz Dual Core Atom board can route 1 Gbps between interfaces with
> over 50% CPU left over for Asterisk and other services.
>
> 3) My testing has demonstrated that a multi-core CPU is particularly
> helpful in embedded applications like AstLinux, things runs more smoothly
> when processes are spread across 4x CPUs (including hyper-threading),
> particularly noticed for latency sensitive applications like VoIP.
>
> 4) When given the extra CPU power of the Atom, as Michael Knill noted,
> CODEC transcoding is now more practical, Zabbix proxy services, many VPN
> sessions, etc. either run better or were not practical on slower hardware.
>
> 5) Price, by virtue of economies of scale, the Atom boards give you a lot
> for the money, just as an example the Jetway NF9HQL-525 (board only) is
> about $190 US, while the net5501-70 (board only) is $254 US. The 1.8GHz
> Intel dual-core Atom will execute about 3-4x faster than the 500 Mhz AMD
> single-core Geode, the NF9HQL-525 4x NIC's are 1Gb PCIe while the net5501
> 4x NIC's are 100 Mb PCI. To be fair, for the record I am comparing a newly
> released board with a board 5 years old.
>
> 6) Power consumption, provided the Atom board is designed for networking
> use (ex. not video playback), they are sill quite efficient, as low as 15
> Watts idle vs. 9 Watts idle for the net5501.
>
>
> IMHO, combining your pfsense with your PBX via a single AstLinux box on a
> Jetway Atom board is a more practical project then trying to run VMware on
> the same board.
>
> Lonnie
>
>
> On Nov 13, 2012, at 11:24 PM, Michael Knill wrote:
>
> > For a firewall maybe. To give you flexibility on what you can do then no.
> > My ALIX box uses 30% CPU with 40ms delay when I transcode from ILBC to
> G.711. Yes I could use G.729 and not transcode but ILBC is better and I
> want this flexibility.
> >
> > Regards
> > Michael Knill
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 14/11/2012, at 4:02 PM, Fernando F. wrote:
> >
> >> Team....
> >>
> >> So my project with the Jetway NF9HQL-525 Dual Core Atom failed. I was
> hoping to run ESXi 5.1 and every time I try to boot ast-linux it kernel
> panic so I decided to just fully load astlinux to CF and go that route...
> >>
> >> I am seeking recommendations from the list...
> >>
> >> Is this board over kill for just Ast-Linux?
> >> Should I attempt to replace my pfsense box with astlinux?
> >>
> >> Any recommendations or thoughts?
> >>
> >> Fernando Fuentes
> >> DIGITALVOIPNET.COM
>
>
>
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