[Asterisk-Users] Which box?

[Andrew Kohlsmith]

On March 9, 2005 07:31 am, asterisk wrote:
> I'm sure this is a stupid question, but I'm not finding an answer
> anywhere.  Do I need a dedicated box to run asterisk, or can I put in my
> server (running Fedora) and leverage some of the free cpu cycles and
> disk space?  Thanks,

That's a very open-ended question.  Your accurate answer: It depends.

At home I have my P3/700 (which is also an NFS/SMB server and NFS root for my 
mythtv box) also running asterisk.  Hell the TDM430P and ethernet share the 
same interrupt and it works *fine* for me.  This is most certainly NOT an 
optimal situation for most people though.

At the office I have two dedicated Asterisk boxes and they work well too.  For 
a beginner such as yourself I would *strongly* recommend using dedicated 
hardware until you understand enough about the interactions to be able to 
intelligently guess what's going to happen.

It's not like you need a lot of horsepower for a regular asterisk box.  I was 
using a P90 without MMX for a while, but it was only one FXS and one FXO 
port.

-A.