Or just run that router as your server behind another router. If power-savings was the goal, whats 1 little extra?
Then again... all these embedded versions of Asterisk, etc pare down so much that it's psycho. I'd just get a netbook for it personally. they also have their own batter and can run for hours on it if the main goes out leaving yuor UPS to support the remaining structures. Plus you get everything else that it can do. Andrew On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Andy Pintar <[email protected]> wrote: > It goes against the 'proper' network design philosophy which separates > router vs service boxes, but for home network/small network, low volume, > asterisk on a router is a fine idea. If you're paranoid (which you should > be) you just run it in a VM and router appropriate ports to the VM (that's > how I do it). That's assuming you don't have some weird hardware config, in > which case it should be on its own box anyway. > > On Thu, 9 Dec 2010, Jeremy wrote: > >> On 10-12-09 11:42 AM, Patricia Campbell wrote: >>> >>> Hi would you svp let me know why you would want to run asterisk on a >>> router versus a server, other than the obvious no extra box needed? >>> >>> Thanks >> >> Low power consumption, small device, +20 geek points? >> >> Jeremy >> _______________________________________________ >> mlug mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca >> > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca > _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
