[asterisk-users] Asterisk on OpenWRT

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I have played with DD-WRT on linksys wrt54g version 5 last week (2 
different ones, they are the model with less memory so i needed to use 
the micro version). I tried to use it as a repeater. (might have 
something to do with it)

So far i read reports on great succes everywhere, my experience are not 
as good, the machines become highly unstable and i experienced heavy 
packetloss at random times. Encryption didn't work at all.
Maybe other versions (with more memory or faster CPU's) are better, but 
my results were a disaster and i would not consider running Asterisk on 
top of that.

Joachim

David Cook wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, Jeff LaCoursiere wrote:
>
>   
>> 1) The latest 8.09 kamikaze no longer supports the Broadcom radios, so ...
>>
>>     
> Because of closed-source drivers the Broadcom chips only work on the 2.4
> series kernels. OpenWRT does make a 2.4 kernel version _and_ a 2.6 kernel
> version. Use the 2.4 and the radios work fine.
>
>   
>> 2) I suppose this should have been clear to me from the start, but without 
>> an external (or hacked internal) storage of some kind, running asterisk on
>>     
> Make sure you have the right version number within the Linksys model. They
> changed drastically the RAM/Flash in the units (downward) as the production
> ran on. There are some charts online to go by. But the skinny is use a
> WRT54GS v4 or lower. V1.1 & 2 were the "good" ones with double the RAM. 
>
>   
>> 3) OpenWRT seems to be less stable and not as mature as dd-wrt, which I 
>>     
> I guess this is someone subjective and OpenWRT is somewhat in flux with 2
> products under the same brand right now.
>
> White Russian was the previous release which is still available. Used
> predominantly NVRAM configs and had a smaller audience of platforms that it
> would support. It did however have a great GUI with lots of features.
>
> Kamikaze is the "new" version which has moved to more traditional config
> files and has an objective to be more platform agnostic.
>
> As a long-time White Russian user I admit the GUI has a long way to go
> before it can be considered a replacement for the White Russian version. I
> myself have never encountered stability problems with either version.
>
> Not sure how much DD-WRT has improved. A few years back OpenWRT was the
> clear winner (in my mind - no flames please) and I haven't re-evaluated the
> competition lately.
>
> -dbc. 
>
>
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