[Asterisk-Users] Is soekris good?

[Kristian Kielhofner]

Juraj Bednar wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>    I just got my Soekris 4801 box for use with Asterisk, but not as a
> primary Asterisk server.
> 
> 
>>* Asterisk at home (Is @home or regular better?)
> 
> 
>    If you want to run from CF, I recommend running some distribution
> (that does not take much space) and your own Asterisk... I'm not even
> sure if it be that easy to install Asterisk on Soekris in the first
> place.

	It should take less than five minutes:

	http://www.astlinux.org

>     I found documentation not being that good for installs, I found a
> wonderful page describing the install process:
> http://www.ultradesic.com/index.php?section=22
> 
> 
>>* Shorwall firewall
> 
> 
>     Try to get a real firewall, Shorewall has quite high latency. You
> should optimize...

	Shorewall is an abstraction layer for iptables.  I don't know what you 
mean by "real firewall" but iptables does the work here.  It most 
certainly is a real firewall.  Shorewall probably has high latency 
because it adds a lot of frivolous rules (just like every other firewall 
utility of it's kind).

>>What is the CF size you are using? and how much is still free? What have
>>you installed?
> 
> 
>      For my setup I installed OpenBSD, although I primarily use Debian
> GNU/Linux. The OpenBSD choice was because of the vpn card for Soekris,
> which is better supported under OpenBSD. I installed the base package
> except games and manual pages, about 60MB was still free (I used 256MB
> compact flash card).

	You can use the flashboot script to generate a nice trimmed down 
OpenBSD environment...


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Kristian Kielhofner