[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk on Soekris

[David Choo]

Colin is spot on.

Couple of years back, we were using Deskpro with 256MB to Run Win2K Server
and Lotus Domino with 10 clients. It ran flawlessly until we moved to a
proper server. The same Lotus Domino Server, with more RAM, is now my Linux
Firewall with over 10 Vlans and around 500 hosts behind it today. Only goes
down when me or my colleagues decide to do something funny with it.

Hail Compaq... too bad HP didn't do too good a job at integrating...

Best Regards,

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> So, I'm wondering does anyone have real-life
> comparisons on the failure rate of a PC compared to the failure rate of
> some of these options??

Obviously, an embedded PC or something that is designed such as a Sokeris
is
made to last a *long* time, but in my experience, a Tier 1 PC (older
Compaq,
HP, *not* consumer) PC fares well. I use old Tier 1 PC's for utility jobs
like small firewalls or FTP servers or hell even homebrew SAN's and the
like, and they just keep chugging. I've never seen a power supply die on a
Deskpro, and I've been using them for > 10 years. They seem immune to the
stupid minor problems that bring clones to a halt, like dust in the fans.
I'd never use a clone in an an application where the life expectancy is
greater than a year. I sleep well at night knowing that all of those old
PC's will be quietly running and doing their jobs just fine the next day.
Also, Tier 1 PC's typically are well documented, you can still get drivers
for them, and the design is consitient and *made* for business
applications.
For example, every Deskpro ever made allows you to run it headless, there's
an option for it right in the BIOS.
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