[asterisk-users] Digium TDM400P in Soekris net5501-70?

[Brian McEntire]

Thanks for the reply Alex. I'm not too scared of the soldering iron (I
own one, but my work with it isn't pretty  ;-)

But can you confirm, are you just using the small power header on the
board to supply power to the pci card? I was wondering if I was going
to have to snake an another wall wort into the box to power the card,
would be good if I don't have to do that!

Not 100% sure I could run a VM on it, but the new net5501 board comes
with 512MB ram and I think a 500-ish MHz processor, way more than what
I'm currently using to run m0n0wall, so even if the VM takes a bite
out of it, it should be fine, hardest part might be configuring the VM
to boot monowall from CF. Can you partition a CF card? (ie, one
partition for the monowall "firmware" and the other for the stripped
down linux install to run Asterisk?)


On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Alex Samad<alex at samad.com.au> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 01:09:30PM -0400, Brian McEntire wrote:
>> Hello -
>> I've been running Asterisk (quite happily!) for several years now
>> using a Digium TDM400P card in an old Linux box (P4 1.6 w/ 256MB RAM).
>> I'm also running another old PC running m0n0wall as a firewall.
>> Between these two boxes, that run 24x7, I'm drawing a lot more power
>> than needed and hoping to make a dent in my monthly electric bill by
>> consolidating the two into a single box with efficient power supply,
>> low power processor, and no spinning HD platters.
>>
>> Main question is whether anyone knows if the Digium TDM400P should be
>> compatible with the 3.3V PCI slot in the Soekris Net5501-70 box?
>
> Hi
>
> I have a the same setup you mention here, except I have a tdm410 card. I
> have a cf boot and a SSD card as well.  Running Debian for firewall and
> asterisk server.  Works well I have 3 vpn tunnels and a 6to4 tunnel
> ending on this machine, 2 fxs + 1 fxo. from my collectd graphs it looks
> like it really only spike when I am taking readins :)
>
> One catch the case that comes from soekris is too tight to put the molex
> on, I had to solder it to the connectors underneath. all fine though
>
> I am not sure about running a vm on this box though - I have some thing
> similiar at another site, but a bigger box.
>
> Alex
>
>>
>> Soekris' description for the net5501-70 says, in part, it has support
>> for "one or two low-power standard PCI board"
>>
>> I see on my Digium card that it requires a molex connector supplying
>> voltage. The Net5501 has a small 4-pin molex header on the board, I
>> wonder if a small to regular sized molex power cable would do the job
>> to supply this card.
>>
>> If the Soekris isn't expected to work well, are there any mainstream
>> small form factor/low-power solutions for a SoHo asterisk server?
>>
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