[asterisk-users] Asterisk on OpenWRT

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I've had similar results to you. Packet loss even when not transcoding.
Overall poor performance across the board. We considered it a failed
experiment.

N.

Zoaaaaa wrote:
> 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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