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Hardware reccommendations
user name
 2006-07-12 06:25:02 
I need to build some new asterisk machines, and I would like
to know what 
other people have that work reliably.

I would like to use a simple Wildcard with 1 fxs board as a
timer, since all 
the calls are IP.

Has anyone had good results with ia64 or amd64?

Has anyone gotten things to work with an SMP machine?

What versions of zaptel and asterisk are you using?

Thanks for the help.  I don't want to go spending thousands
of dollars on 
hardware that won't work.

-Tim
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Hardware reccommendations
user name
 2006-07-12 14:39:37 

  


  

    
"Tim St. Pierre" <timcommunicatefreely.net> wrote:  
I need to build some new asterisk machines, and I would like to know what 
other people have that work reliably.

I would like to use a simple Wildcard with 1 fxs board as a timer, since all 
the calls are IP.

Has anyone had good results with ia64 or amd64?

Has anyone gotten things to work with an SMP machine?

What versions of zaptel and asterisk are you using?

Thanks for the help. I don't want to go spending thousands of dollars on 
hardware that won't work.

-Tim
-- 
Tim St. Pierre

IP telephony specialist
sip://5101communicatefreely.net
Toronto: 647 722 6930
Toll-Free 1 888 488 6940
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I'm pretty sure you cannot use zaptel with AMD64. I installed the i386 version of FreeBSD on my AMD machine and it worked but when I used the amd64 version it crapped out on zaptel. But don't take my word for it.
  
 
  
As for the version&nbsp;the current FreeBSD port (/usr/ports/net/asterisk) will install Asterisk-1.2.9.1 and zaptel-1.0.&nbsp;That has been working solid for me. Although I had to add the line 
  
 
  
WITHOUT_FAX=1 
  
 
  
to the Makefile to get the build to complete successfully.
  
 
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     user name

     2006-07-12 15:36:58
  


  

    
Thanks for the info Frank.  Are you using one processor, or
more than one?

-Tim

On July 12, 2006 10:39, Frank Griffith wrote:
> "Tim St. Pierre" <timcommunicatefreely.net> wrote:  I need to build
some
> new asterisk machines, and I would like to know what
other people have that
> work reliably.
>
> I would like to use a simple Wildcard with 1 fxs board
as a timer, since
> all the calls are IP.
>
> Has anyone had good results with ia64 or amd64?
>
> Has anyone gotten things to work with an SMP machine?
>
> What versions of zaptel and asterisk are you using?
>
> Thanks for the help. I don't want to go spending
thousands of dollars on
> hardware that won't work.
>
> -Tim

-- 
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Toronto: 647 722 6930
Toll-Free 1 888 488 6940
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     user name

     2006-07-12 20:04:54
  


  

    
> Has anyone had good results with ia64 or amd64?
> Has anyone gotten things to work with an SMP machine?

amd64 processor should be fine, but save yourself possible
trouble
and travel the path more well-travelled - i386 uniprocessor
kernel...
The more you do out-of-the-ordinary, the less chance someone
else
has run into any potential problems.

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     2006-07-12 21:55:46
  


  

    

  


  

    
"Tim St. Pierre" <timcommunicatefreely.net> wrote:  
Thanks for the info Frank. Are you using one processor, or more than one?

-Tim

On July 12, 2006 10:39, Frank Griffith wrote:
>; "Tim St. Pierre" COMMUNICATEFREELY.NET>wrote: I need to build some
> new asterisk machines, and I would like to know what other people have that
> work reliably.
>
> I would like to use a simple Wildcard with 1 fxs board as a timer, since
> all the calls are IP.
>
&gt; Has anyone had good results with ia64 or amd64?
>;
> Has anyone gotten things to work with an SMP machine?
&gt;
> What versions of zaptel and asterisk are you using?
>;
> Thanks for the help. I don't want to go spending thousands of dollars on
> hardware that won't work.
>
> -Tim

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 St. Pierre

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Okay, but only if you promise not to laugh....I use an old 1998 model Dell Optiplex with a single P220 with 64 MB RAM. It's never really been load tested but that's next. For my setup though it works great. I have a small LAN with three FreeBSD servers and some WinXP machines running X-Lite and a Grandstream BT-200 IP phone. I also run X-Lite on my laptop at my office. It took some work with port forwarding and the right firewall rules but I have it working from a remote location as well. I use the laptop when I'm on the road and can forget about the cell not getting a signal or paying the hotels extorsion rates for long
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     2006-07-13 05:45:49
  


  

    
I have an older Compaq machine with 15k SCSI drives in a
raid, dual power 
supplies, and 3 Xeon 550 MHz processors.  It seems to be
quite happy running 
Asterisk for several businesses, as well as web and e-mail
for several 
businesses.  My big issue is the zaptel support, and I'm
wondering whether or 
not I would be better of with a single processor machine
that has a faster 
clock speed (and uses less electricity).



On July 12, 2006 17:55, Frank Griffith wrote:
> "Tim St. Pierre" <timcommunicatefreely.net> wrote:  Thanks for the info
> Frank. Are you using one processor, or more than one?
>
> -Tim
>
> On July 12, 2006 10:39, Frank Griffith wrote:
> > "Tim St. Pierre" wrote: I need to
build some
> > new asterisk machines, and I would like to know
what other people have
> > that work reliably.
> >
> > I would like to use a simple Wildcard with 1 fxs
board as a timer, since
> > all the calls are IP.
> >
> > Has anyone had good results with ia64 or amd64?
> >
> > Has anyone gotten things to work with an SMP
machine?
> >
> > What versions of zaptel and asterisk are you
using?
> >
> > Thanks for the help. I don't want to go spending
thousands of dollars on
> > hardware that won't work.
> >
> > -Tim

-- 
Tim St. Pierre

IP telephony specialist
sip://5101communicatefreely.net
Toronto: 647 722 6930
Toll-Free 1 888 488 6940
timcommunicatefreely.net
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