I've just finally built my new system that is going to serve as my home and office PBX using PIAF. As well as to be used for many testing scenarios and integration with some of the things I do at work.
The system configuration is as follows:
* Dual Core Atom 330 processor (HyperThreading enabled), 1.6 GHz
* Intel D945GCLF2 mainboard
* 2 GB RAM
* 60 GB IDE 2.5" (laptop) drive (recycled from an older laptop)
* No PCI card currently installed
* Currently no other drives, though am installing from a (bootable) USB DVD drive.
For FXO and FXS ports, will be using an AudioCodes MP-118 MIXED, and probably eventually a Cisco 1760. Key point here is that I am not using (nor plan to anytime soon) any PCI based telephony cards. If I use the PCI slot, it would only be for additional Ethernet ports, but at the moment nothing is installed here.
So the questions I am interested in are:
* 32 bit vs 64 bit install...
- With only 2 GB max RAM, is there really any reason to go with a 32 bit CentOS install? I know all the technical details (in great detail, trust me) of the differences, but in actual practice with PIAF is there any difference?
- If I go with the 64 bit install, am I going to run into any issues with not being able to find certain packages or drivers to run properly in the future?
* Asterisk 1.4 or 1.6
- From a recent thread I have seen the main drawback of 1.6 at the moment is lack of Zaptel support. I could really care less as I'm only using external gateways (no PCI cards). Any other drawbacks with 1.6?
- Are there any packages, especially from NerdVittles, that I wouldn't be able to run on Asterisk 1.6?
- Any advantages to 1.6 that might help?
The one thing I do see an advantage with 1.6 is simply the support for chan_mobile (though I understand it can be forced to work in 1.4 in some form or fashion). While chan_mobile is not a mandatory requirement for now, at some point I would like to use my cellphone as a trunk. But this is not super critical now.
Let me know your thoughts and your advice.
I do have PIAF installed (64 bit with Asterisk 1.4) now, but for some reason (after I enabled X on the box), I can't get into the web interface though it worked previously (yes, Apache is running). Probably a security setting in something that somehow got changed (I don't think it was me though) and box is indeed accessible (pingable, telnetable, etc) from the network.
So rather than diagnose this (hadn't configured anything much yet), its probably easier to reinstall anyway, so while I was doing this, thought I would ask for recommendations here.
Thanks!
The system configuration is as follows:
* Dual Core Atom 330 processor (HyperThreading enabled), 1.6 GHz
* Intel D945GCLF2 mainboard
* 2 GB RAM
* 60 GB IDE 2.5" (laptop) drive (recycled from an older laptop)
* No PCI card currently installed
* Currently no other drives, though am installing from a (bootable) USB DVD drive.
For FXO and FXS ports, will be using an AudioCodes MP-118 MIXED, and probably eventually a Cisco 1760. Key point here is that I am not using (nor plan to anytime soon) any PCI based telephony cards. If I use the PCI slot, it would only be for additional Ethernet ports, but at the moment nothing is installed here.
So the questions I am interested in are:
* 32 bit vs 64 bit install...
- With only 2 GB max RAM, is there really any reason to go with a 32 bit CentOS install? I know all the technical details (in great detail, trust me) of the differences, but in actual practice with PIAF is there any difference?
- If I go with the 64 bit install, am I going to run into any issues with not being able to find certain packages or drivers to run properly in the future?
* Asterisk 1.4 or 1.6
- From a recent thread I have seen the main drawback of 1.6 at the moment is lack of Zaptel support. I could really care less as I'm only using external gateways (no PCI cards). Any other drawbacks with 1.6?
- Are there any packages, especially from NerdVittles, that I wouldn't be able to run on Asterisk 1.6?
- Any advantages to 1.6 that might help?
The one thing I do see an advantage with 1.6 is simply the support for chan_mobile (though I understand it can be forced to work in 1.4 in some form or fashion). While chan_mobile is not a mandatory requirement for now, at some point I would like to use my cellphone as a trunk. But this is not super critical now.
Let me know your thoughts and your advice.
I do have PIAF installed (64 bit with Asterisk 1.4) now, but for some reason (after I enabled X on the box), I can't get into the web interface though it worked previously (yes, Apache is running). Probably a security setting in something that somehow got changed (I don't think it was me though) and box is indeed accessible (pingable, telnetable, etc) from the network.
So rather than diagnose this (hadn't configured anything much yet), its probably easier to reinstall anyway, so while I was doing this, thought I would ask for recommendations here.
Thanks!