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Asterisk embedded systems

Configuring a tiny Asterisk system


There is a lot of interest in running Asterisk on "embedded" plattforms like the Linksys NSLU2.

News



Note: There are reports of Asterisk semi-sucessfully running on a Linksys wrt54GS Router
see http://nthill.free.fr/openwrt/ipkg/testing/20041213/ for an ipkg install
srcs http://nthill.free.fr/openwrt/sources/asterisk/ for openwrt
you need to noload some modules, skip ilbc, and dont do codec conversion
there is no horse power well it does work with ulaw/gsm for single channel.

To run on these kinds of systems the operating system and application are usually stored in a read-only medium like compact flash. Because of the limited space avaiable on these storage mediums, it requires some effort to reduce the O/S and Application down to a size that will fit.



Resources

  • AstLinux Customized version of Linux designed to run from compact flash or small Hard drive.
  • Magiclink Asterisk Appliance: Blackfin embedded Asterisk hardware with 8 ports FXS/FXO released.
  • VoIPBox: For WRAP, Live CD, PXE Image, with web GUI in German and English. Planned: USB stick, Via EPIA
  • Asterisk hardware Soekris running Asterisk on Soekris hardware.
  • Asterisk hardware Gumstix Running Asterisk on Gumstix (World's Smallest VoIP PBX)
  • MetrixCommunication:Company that offers a complete soekris/asterisk kit, and offers customer support for configuration as well
  • Asterisk fli4l: OPT package for the router-on-a-diskette fli4
  • Limey Linux: A custom CF Asterisk/Linux Distribution. Fits on a 128MB or 512MB compact flash card. Optimized for VIA Mini-ITX boards with 512MB of DDR RAM. Recently upgraded to use the 2.6 kernel and Asterisk 1.4. Allows Asterisk, Libpri, and Zaptel to be compiled on the target system.
  • Pebble Linux: CF Linux distribution
  • Embedded Asterisk: Step by step guide for installing an embedded * system using Debian, CF, i586
  • Build your own Asterisk hardware based on the Free Telephony Project (Aug 2006)
  • IP04 Open Hardware IP-PBX: An open (free as in speech) four port IP-PBX design that can be built for around $100 and will retail for around $400.

Comments from Users

Wipeout writes, november 2003'


If anyone is looking for a small Asterisk installation I have managed to get it down to 296MB (If you remove the kernel source code.. could probably be made smaller if some of the devel packages and asterisk source is removed as well.)

To do it I used Trustix Secure Linux 2.0 (http://www.trustix.net), did a minimum install with ssh support(92MB) and then added the required packages individually..

Everything has compiled and Asterisk loads but I haven't tried any Zaptel drivers or hardware so can't comment on that..



Andrew Kohlsmith writes:

As small as possible?


I will say this to every single person who comes in here asking what the BARE
MINIMUM is or HOW MUCH can Asterisk handle...

You do *not* know enough about the system to even attempt to build these kinds
of systems!

In order to properly provision Asterisk, you need experience with it. You
need to know how it operates normally, and how it operates when it's
struggling. Build a "normal" Asterisk box first. Play with it. Get to know
it. THEN start optimizing.

PLEASE — will people stop trying to optimize their Asterisk system until they
have Clue One about how it operates and what its requirements are? I am
asking that you do this for your own good; I want you to have a successful
Asterisk install and blindly telling you is NOT going to help you achieve
that in any way shape or form.

PLEASE — UNDERSTAND THE SYSTEM, THEN OPTIMIZE. NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND.

Regards,
Andrew Kohlsmith


Anon writes:

Pebble Linux
I usually use pebble http://www.nycwireless.net/pebble/, which is a customised
Debian for CF usage (read-only installation), originally intended as WLan
accesspoint operatingsystem. That upgraded to Sarge, all odbc, mysql stuff, my
custom asterisk stable packages http://www.marlow.dk/asterisk usually ends up
around 210 MB, including a kernel with full wlan, bluetooth and pcmcia
capabilities, all zaptel modules (including zaphfc/qozap) etc.

The whole thing is thought to be run on soekris, wrap or itx boards. Even a
notebook will do. The image can either be run from CF or just pxe booted, if
wanted.

Does the job quite well and is easy upgradeble, because it's still a more or
less default Debian.

Anon writes:

uClibC based
  • "Has anyone looked at using busybox and uClibc with asterisk? Those two (and agressively stripping everything) were the biggest things in making Linux tiny. That and eliminating static binaries whereever possible."
  • "I've run a uClibc-linked Asterisk in a chroot environment for some months now, and I have to say it works. It isn't stress-tested, but it seems to work. The binary is 546 kB, and all 90+ modules take up 2364 kB together."

Klaus-Peter Junghanns writes:

kapjod
22 MB zipped for an *, postfix, router, traffic shaper, sshd.


Anon writes:

SuSE Rescue
"I am running Asterisk on a modified SuSE 9.0 rescue system. Total system including sshd, Asterisk, MOH and Asterisk prompts is 32 MB zipped. It expands to 52 MB on a 64 MB RAM disk. I boot it from a compact flash disk. The system is a 600 MHz TransMeta Crusoe with only 110 MB RAM. It is powerful enough to drive a quadBRI and so some GSM encoding/decoding."
  • Via EPIA 5000 (C3-533), EUR 80,-
  • Morex case with external power supply, EUR 80,-
  • some old 256 mb SDRAMM
  • 128 MB USB memory stick, EUR 30,-
  • 1 quadBRI (could also easily handle an octoBRI, or a PRI card, with the dual riser pci card you can use 2 cards)
The C3-533 is an i586 CPU. According to "show translation" it needs 30 ms for transcoding 1 channel from g711 to gsm (and vice versa). So, neglecting any overhead caused by channel handling it could transcode 30 channels to gsm.

Linux BIOS has support for the EPIA boards, so you can speed up booting very much and also disable the VGA port (very useful for production deployments....).


From: Sunrise Ltd, Japan


We mostly use SuSE for building Asterisk servers and the smallest you can do with the standard SuSE installer just about fits onto 500MB. With a little bit of effort removing more stuff you could easily fit everything into a 512MB compact flash card, including Asterisk and some free space for logs and voicemail.

You might want to use an IDE/CF adapter that can hold two CF cards. This way you could stick in a smaller second card -say- 32 or 64MB and mount stuff like /etc/asterisk, /var/log, /var/run and voicemail etc on that one, possibly leaving the main card mounted read-only for most of the time.

Also, keep in mind that you don't necessarily have to keep kernel sources and development tools around, which can be a siginficant reduction in required disk space.

If you have the time to put some more effort into this, I'd recommend you look into Coyote Linux ...

http://www.coyotelinux.com

This is an embedded Linux distro put together by Joshua Jackson for the purpose of creating very small footprint firewall routers and VPN servers.

He's got three applications based on this so far, one is a firewall that fits entirely onto a floppy disk, another is a VPN server and firewall router that fits into a 32MB compact flash card and the third one is an intrusion detection system with similar properties.

With a bit of effort you could possibly build a very small foot print (<=64MB ?) Asterisk server on top of Coyote Linux.

Other places to check out are:


rgds
benjk


Asterisk on floppy

by Ivo Tachev

I have compiled asterisk-1.0RC1 against uCLibC to use it on my floppyfw (v.2.95) diskless box (P200MMX, 64MB RAM; but was a 486DX/133, 16MB RAM and worked, too). I have removed most unneeded modules, left only IAX support. Some crippling in the source was done, too. So now I have a working IAX soft pbx with echo-test, serving a dozen IAXComm clients, and the bzipped tarball is running off a 1.2MB floppy (floppy0 is 1.44MB for floppyfw with dropbear sshd). Temp storage is in RAM.


Asterisk on VIA EPIA M

by cstead

I have written a small howto for installing Asterisk on Debian using the VIA EPIA M platform. It is a step-by-step guide targeted at the Asterisk/Linux beginner
http://www.steady-com.com/asterisk/debian-install.html


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Go back to Asterisk

Created by oej, Last modification by krisk17 on Thu 12 of Jul, 2007 [21:37 UTC]

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VIA EPIA M Debian Asterisk Howto

by cstead on Thursday 13 of October, 2005 [14:41:25 UTC]
I have written a small howto for installing Asterisk on Debian using the VIA EPIA M platform

http://www.steady-com.com/asterisk/debian-install.html
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bering

by Anonymous on Monday 27 of December, 2004 [23:59:24 UTC]
I have a compact flash system based on bering (linux router project) on epia via mainboard. using busybox and asterisk is fully functional with 4 port fxo in 64MB image/128M RAM, although its hard to find cf cards this small nowadays. Hoping to move the booting bit into linuxbios and keep the flash for binaries/config.
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Ivo Tachev

by Anonymous on Tuesday 23 of November, 2004 [15:53:38 UTC]
I have compiled asterisk-1.0RC1 against uCLibC to use it on my floppyfw (v.2.95) diskless box (P200MMX, 64MB RAM; but was a 486DX/133, 16MB RAM and worked, too). I have removed most unneeded modules, left only IAX support. Some crippling in the source was done, too. So now I have a working IAX soft pbx with echo-test, serving a dozen IAXComm clients, and the bzipped tarball is running off a 1.2MB floppy (floppy0 is 1.44MB for floppyfw with dropbear sshd). Temp storage is in RAM.
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Running on linksys router?

by Anonymous on Thursday 14 of October, 2004 [12:51:10 UTC]
Where is the report?
Some doc? some word?
Cheers.

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