[clug] Asterix at home

[David Cottrill]

At work I set up proprietary SIP/VoIP systems day in and day out.
I've gotten Asterisk working at home but I had to sell my good kidney
to do it. I suggest you either derive your Asterisk installation from
one of those distros that has it pre install (Trixbox?) or spend a
fraction of the time and effort on a ready made solution.

Once you have Asterisk up and running it can do pretty much anything
if you need it to, the trick is getting it up and running.

For the record my home router/server is an old laptop that consumes
40W and provides a 20GB network drive that is always there. It will be
shelved soon for an embedded router (I can finally have wifi!) and a
NAS bringing the total power bill to about 10W + 2TB worth of hard
drive consumption, more or less the same if I tweak the hard drive
power settings in the (Debian) NAS.
When the time comes I will be asking exactly how to tweak the hard
drive settings to spin down when possible.
David

2009/7/15 Ben Coughlan <ben.coughlan at gmail.com>:
>
> On 15/07/2009, at 8:35 PM, Ben Coughlan wrote:
>
>> And I can plug my handsets directly into my router.  Landline calls come
>> in as normal, VOIP is used automatically whenever I dial out.
>>
>> I'd have no how to make a PC do that.
>
> Edit:   no idea
>
>> On 15/07/2009, at 8:28 PM, Mike Carden wrote:
>>
>>> I'm reminded of the years I spent running a custom Linux firewall box
>>> for my home network. I tended it carefully and assiduously applied
>>> updates, read its logs and basked in my time-consuming but powerfully
>>> protected home network.
>>>
>>> Then I bought a teeny tiny linux based router that ran off the smell
>>> of an oily rag.
>>>
>>> To feel more geeky I immediately gave it community firmware and
>>> tweaked it to within an inch of... doing what it did already.
>>>
>>> And I still had a secure home network.
>>>
>>> Now I have a Wireless router / ADSL2 / VOIP device that doesn't care
>>> what OS talks to it and gives me seamless VOIP at the same time as
>>> doing all of the wired and unwired local data provisioning that I
>>> need.
>>>
>>> By all means hack 100 watts of old PC into being a VOIP gateway, but
>>> it's no longer the province of hackers. Your corner store can sell you
>>> a smaller, cheaper, working version for less than the cost of the
>>> power to run an old PC[0].
>>>
>>>
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