[Asterisk-Users] Dinosaur *

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Monday 02 June 2003 03:46 pm, Mike M wrote:
> With some trepidation I've come to inquire about platform
> requirements for * after having spent a couple of hours searching
> and browsing the archives and skimming the Handbook (very nice).
> I've found recommendations for 800-1000 Mhz and 128-256 MB RAM
> machines. My curiosity is not about what machine I need to start
> using * to support live comm ops.  Rather, I want to know if a
> couple of dinosaurs that I have in the corner can be used to do
> some learning.
>
> I have a Pentium 133Mhz 16MB RAM box with PCI bus, and a Pentium
> 75Mhz 32MB RAM box with PCI bus.  Will these boxes work for
> back-to-back experimentation with PRI in this configuration?:
>
> POTS phone-----[ * ]---PRI---[ * ]---POTS phone
>
> I assume that I'll need to get a couple line cards and a couple T1
> cards.

First, they're going to have to be MMX.  The 133 might be, but the 75
is definitely not.  Normally you don't want to go much below a 200MHz
processor for a base-level system; you could certainly try something
slower, but not without MMX instructions.

-Tilghman