RE: Asterisk kit needed

["K. C. Li" <li@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 26 May 2004, Paul Gale wrote:

> Oh, and I'll probably go the cheap fanless ITX PC route - I did have a
> look at the Asterisk web site but couldn't see any min specs. If I
> want to do everything, what min hardware spec should I be looking at?

We have Asterisk running for over a year on our lowly Linux server (dual
233MHz with 128MB RAM) without any problems at all. The same server is
also the firewall, e-mail server, web server, shared data drive, MP3
share, etc.

We have a couple of Snom VoIP phones (Snom 100 and 200) that are
permanently online. Beware when you are using the Digium PSTN card though.
We used to have it plugged into a PSTN socket for VoIP to PSTN gateway.
However, one day a BT engineer suddenly turned up to say that they have
detected a short on the line. It turned out to be caused by the FXO card.
The BT automatic equipment must have somehow detected the FXO card's
presence as a short in the circuit. The FXS card still works fine when I
plug it into a PSTN socket but I don't leave it permanently connected now.

Regards,

Kwong Li
li@xxxxxxx
Laser Business Systems Ltd.
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