[Asterisk-Users] Soekris and Asterisk

[Craig Guy]

Hi Kristan,

The interrupt load is what I am most worried about.  At most it would be two 
spans.  Echo cancellation is not required as 80% or more would be fax 
traffic, the rest IVR and voicemail.

I am aware of AstLinux but unfortunately for this particular application the 
Soekris OS is gonna be FreeBSD as the Soekris is primarily a router with the 
PRI piggybacking.  As far as I can tell, I don't need asterisk installed, 
just zaptel and libpri.  I guess I'll find out.  The major reason for this 
is that I can't physically stick the PRI card in my * server (don't ask!) so 
this is one of the alternatives I have dreamed up, along with setting up the 
Soekris with the PRI and IAX2 trunking to the * box but I think TDMoE would 
be much more efficient.  At the end of the day I might just have to get a 
bigger * server to get the card in, but doing it this way would be an 
interesting hack and also allows some sort of scripted failover.  Eg, if the 
Soekris sees that a * server has died it can stop the zaptel service, swap 
in different config files pointing to a mac address in a backup * server and 
away we go :)

Craig
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kristian Kielhofner" <kris at krisk.org>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" 
<asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 6:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Soekris and Asterisk


> Craig Guy wrote:
>> Has anyone on the list used a Soekris engineering PC as a TDM - Ethernet 
>> bridge?  For example something like a net4801 with a TE110p in it and 
>> then using TDMoE to get it into a bigger server where the call processing 
>> proper will occur.
>>
>> Anyone know if it might handle a quadspan card ok? (no transcoding, just 
>> pure PRI to TDMoE bridging).
>>
>> Craig
>
> Craig,
>
> It all depends on where you are going to do what (PRI, echo cancel, etc). 
> Also, for four spans the interrupt load alone could probably saturate the 
> CPU.
>
> If you want to try, AstLinux will be an excellent start...
>
> http://www.astlinux.org
>
> P.S. - I created AstLinux, so of course I would recommend it!
>
> --
> Kristian Kielhofner
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