[Asterisk-Users] Hardware Vendors

[tmassey at obscorp.com]

asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com wrote on 07/14/2003 12:37:33 PM:

> My fantasy machine for this purpose would be along the lines of a
> mini-itx system with external power supply, dual Ethernet interfaces
> on board, and one PCI slot available.  If it had one real serial
> port on it, that would be great too.  Am I dreaming, or does it
> exist for a reasonable price?  I would be willing to go the 500 MHz
> – 1 GHz range.  Something without a fan would be really nice.  I’m
> basically looking for a system that someone out there is stamping
> out in quantities and isn’t too outrageous in price.  Does it exist,
> and if so who sells it?

www.caseoutlet.com

Via Eden 533MHz processor, no fans whatsoever.  Runs like a PII 400MHz.
They have cases that have 2 PCI slots.  That's the biggest limitation:
lack of PCI slots.

We use these to sell Linux-based firewall computers for clients.  They have
run for well over a year with exactly zero crashes.  With no moving parts
(not even hard drives:  we use DOM for the firewalls), there isn't a lot to
go wrong.

Having said all of that, I don't think they'll make good Asterisk boxes.  2
PCI slots isn't much and 400MHz PII-type performance isn't great (though
you can get 750MHz or so of PIII performance from the new 1GHz CPU's if you
don't mind a CPU fan).  But if you can live with that, they're very nice.

Don't forget to target the i586 architecture.  The VIA CPU's don't have an
instruction (CMOV? CMPXCHNG? something like that) that the Intels do and
that CGG uses with an i686 target.  Unfortunately, the VIA gets detected as
an i686...

Tim Massey