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

[Darrick Hartman]

I still don't see what you gain by using m0n0wall and a separate 
Asterisk install.  I can't think of one thing that you would need a 
separate m0n0wall instance to do that AstLinux can't do on it's own. 
The web interface has become quite completely in the last few releases. 
  Traffic shaping, firewall, vpn support etc.  I don't understand how a 
VM does anything more than complicate an otherwise simple set up.

Darrick

Brian McEntire wrote:
> 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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