[asterisk-users] Mini-ITX board + FXO PCI card?

[Gordon Henderson]

On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Vincent Delporte wrote:

> Hello
>
> Before I order a Travla C156 case 
> (http://206.14.132.88/products/Travla/c156/C156.html), a Via mini-ITX 
> motherboard (either the fanless ME6000 
> http://idotpc.com/TheStore/pc/viewPrd.asp?idcategory=50&idproduct=4 or the 
> fan-equipped M10000 
> http://idotpc.com/TheStore/pc/viewPrd.asp?idcategory=50&idproduct=163 ) , and 
> a PCI FXO card from Digium or OpenVox... has someone already built that kind 
> of box, and could tell me if it's powerful enough to power a small PBX?

Check the processor spec. carefully. There are a few  variants of the VIA 
processor and some have 64KB of cache and other 128KB.

I've deployed several fanless CN1000 systems which have 128KB of cache, 
but my R&D system has an older (533MHz) processor with 64KB of cache. (All 
with TDM400 cards)

The thing that will kill these boards is transcoding.

Also make sure you compile asterisk for an i586 - the Via processors while 
looking like i686 are lacking some instructions that causes asterisk to 
code-dump at boot time.

I have some VIA EK processor systems, 1GHz, 64KB cache with a fan which I 
use as routers (2 on-board ethernet ports) and I've never been able to get 
the fan to run at any time other than boot time, so if the boards you're 
looking at have fans, I'd guess they were connected the same way and only 
came on when they got hot, but I'd still go fanless (& diskless) if 
possible.

Gordon