[Asterisk-Users] Router Recommendations Please

[Mark Eissler]

Just joined the list. Yay.

Seems to me that thanks to VOIP people are now trying to do big things 
with still relatively low bandwidth connectivity and/or consumer-grade 
hardware. Little Netopia routers aren't going to get you where you need 
to be. The solution is to upgrade to either a Linux-based router (as 
Michael suggests) or to a bigger router hardware (not a cheap way to go 
about it though).

-mark

On Jan 19, 2005, at 9:05 AM, Michael Graves wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 20:01:51 -0600, rsenykoff at harrislogic.com wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> We've discovered that VoIP (IAX2) + Citrix + Video is pegging the 
>> measly
>> CPU on the Netopia router our ISP provided. We've got 3Mb/3Mb and will
>> increase to 4/4 next year.
>>
>> The Netopia simply breaks out our WAN IPs, and we've got a switch 
>> hooked up
>> to it on the inside (Actually I've got a QoS box in-between).
>>
>> -------------
>> | Internet  |
>> |  on Cat5  |
>> -------------
>>     |
>> -------------
>> | Netopia   |
>> -------------
>>     |
>> -------------
>> | QoS Bridge |
>> --------------
>>     |
>> ----------------------
>> | switch for WAN IPs |
>> ----------------------
>>  |              |  |
>> --------------
>> | LAN Switch |
>> --------------
>>  |  |  |  |
>>
>>
>> Any recommendations on something that isn't as pricey as Cisco? I'm in
>> discussions about us building Linux units down the line, but for now 
>> we
>> need something we can buy. Cisco is too expensive for us.
>>
>
> m0n0wall is my favorite.
>
> web site http://m0n0.ch/wall/
>
> Review on Tom's Networking
> http://www.tomsnetworking.com/Reviews-161-ProdID-MONOWALL.php
>
> Open source running on either a plain vanilla PC or a Soekris embedded
> platform.
>
> Michael
>
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