Kristian Kielhofner wrote:
The Soekris net5501 and standard case will (I believe) take a full height card. Then again you could use any board and get an external SIP gateway (ATA). We don't currently support OpenZAP with FS in AstLinux but I'd love to add support for it eventually.
Ok, I found this: <http://www.soekris.com/net5501.htm>. It looks like room for a full height card. 4 network adaptors for a Freeswitch box. Hmmm. Suspect I would only find use for one ;-) Lack of OpenZAP support might be an issue, I assume that would be required to connect to an onboard analogue port... I assume I could just install Debian or another distribution instead though. Does this require a hard disk drive to boot Linux? I am guessing that compact flash could be used instead. Alternatively, if I used an external ATA, what is a good one to use? I think Jason has already made a suggestion, if so I have forgotten. I guess I get nervous going down this approach because it will add to the latency, but then again it won't use so much CPU power either, and the Digium cards send a lot of time-critical interrupts.
I'm currently working with the FS devs on getting some issues in trunk resolved to get cross compiling working again. Until then you can find ISOs with FreeSWITCH and AstLInux here if you'd like to check it out:
I am curious, how do you install ISOs onto a box like the net5501? I don't see any provision for CD-ROM drives. -- Brian May <brian@microcomaustralia.com.au>