[asterisk-users] Running Asterisk on a Home rotuer

Leo Ann Boon leo at datvoiz.com
Fri Dec 8 03:07:56 MST 2006


Dovid B wrote:
> tacking pn = adding on - sorry for not being more specific.
> I have seen that people in the past have used a linksys router to run 
> asterisk. It would be to expensive to bring in a PC for every 
> location. So we want to import "cheap home routers" put asterisk on 
> them as use them as the go in between the IP phones and the asterisk 
> server.
Check with Brian Capouch. He deployed Asterisk on Linksys WRT54G in some 
rural areas.

Caveat here: Cheap = not enough horses :). Don't expect to pass many 
calls through one of those things. You might want to look at deploying a 
lightweight SIP proxy on the router instead of asterisk.

Leo


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