[asterisk-users] Recommend hard phone which supports IAX2?

[Stephen Bosch]

Michael Graves wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 19:43:58 +0100, Tim Panton wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 25 Jul 2006, at 16:23, Stephen Bosch wrote:
>>> What are the best IAX2 hard phones?
> 
>> I've got a couple of IAX hardphones, with PA168, they are useable,
>> but only just. They are hard to hang up (which is a design problem)
>> and  a pain to get transfer working (which is a software problem).
> 
>> Much as I love IAX, I advise you to buy a decent SIP phone
>> (SNOM?).
> 
>> At home I have a SIP phone and an nslu2 running asterisk, just to act  
>> as a
>> protocol converter, but any old 486 or PII will do the
>> trick.
> 
> I echo this sentiment. Except that I'd recommend Astlinux on a WRAP or Soekris board. Small, low power,fanless, boots from CF or USB key and able to transcode between G.711 and 
> G.729a. Astlinux rocks!

I use Soekris units with OpenBSD for VPN edge devices. I take it you're
running Astlinux on a Soekris? That's worked well for you? How's the
performance?

-Stephen-