hardware requirement for asterisk

pawan_lal · Post by **pawan_lal** » 2009/11/05 07:36:39

hi all,
i am new in asterisk n i want to know what r the hardware requirement if i want to accomplish these things from asterisk.

let me tell u what i want to achieve from asterisk.in my home i have two PSTN (phone) lines. i want to configure both lines in my asterisk server. these are the points which i want to achieve from asterisk server.

ill be giving 5 extention nos to thos 2 PSTN lines

ill be giving extention nos to all those 5 phones

ill be giving confrencing facility

ill be giving music on hold

if i am not able to make u explain properly than plz forgive me. now plz tell me how to achieve this from asterisk. what hardware ill be nedding

thx

pjwelsh · Post by **pjwelsh** » 2009/11/05 19:39:36

It takes very little power to handle just 5 extensions. Any recent ix86 will be fine. Heck they even have the embedded asterisks...

pawan_lal · Post by **pawan_lal** » 2009/11/06 08:00:26

hi dude,
how r u,now i have started configuring asterisk from scratch level. i have downloaded asterisk,libpri,dahdi from asterisk.org, i am getting confused as there are more than one version of asterisk and dahdi. i had downloaded those tar in /usr/src.plz find the attachment.

asterisk-1.4.26.3.tar.gz
asterisk-1.6.1.9.tar.gz
dahdi-linux-2.2.0.2.tar.gz
dahdi-linux-complete-2.2.0.2+2.2.0.tar.gz
libpri-1.4.10.2.tar.gz

i am confused which tar should i compile. need ur guidance. dude my mail id is pawan_lal@yahoo.com, plz give urs mail id.

thx a lot

pawan_lal · Post by **pawan_lal** » 2009/11/06 08:05:04

plz give ur mail id

[quote]
pjwelsh wrote:
It takes very little power to handle just 5 extensions. Any recent ix86 will be fine. Heck they even have the embedded asterisks...[/quote]

pjwelsh · Post by **pjwelsh** » 2009/11/06 13:38:33

Don't compile unless you need too. You can google search for "asterisk centos howto" and get some help like: http://www.kaliphonia.com/content/linux/how-to-install-asterisk-on-centos-server or http://swik.net/CentOS+asterisk
Basically, the repository "atrpms" is what you will need. Please pay close attention to the info from http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories and http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities
For any Asterisk setup after, you may be better off looking to the Asterisks mailing lists. Also note thatif Asterisk is the *only* thing you really want (or have limited skills), then you may be better off using custom distro's like http://www.trixbox.org/ or http://www.asterisk.org/asterisknow or http://www.astlinux.org/ (google for others).

pawan_lal · Post by **pawan_lal** » 2009/11/07 18:17:06

hi pjwelsh,
thx a lot for those useful links for asterisk. i appologise for dual posting which i had done,it will never happen again.
thx

Ejant · Post by **Ejant** » 2009/11/18 05:10:23

hi!!!

My production system:
*Pentium 4 2.0 Ghz
*1 Gb Ram
*Centos 5.4 32 bits, asterisk 1.4 + mysql + apache (for some call report tools) + asteriskgui
*10 simoultaneous sip channels, encoded alaw and ulaw
*about 25 sip registrations, 20 at the office 5 via vpn

for 5 pstn channels with a standard pc you can run it very well!

i hope it helps

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