[asterisk-users] Asterisk on OpenWRT

[Jeff LaCoursiere]

The trick does seem to make sure you have the right hardware platform 
underneath.  I have high hopes for the Netgear boxes that should be in my 
hands tomorrow.  Will report...

j

On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, SIP wrote:

> 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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