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Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router Mango2,
Thanks for the write-up. Very nice. Just one question though. Why do you need tomato firmware at all? I think some beta version of DD-WRT also support USB2 drives, and via optware-install and ipkg, you can install asterisk. See wiki »www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Optware and »www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/USB_storage. I am just wondering if you have tried this method or not.
said by Mango:As promised, here's how I built an Asterisk box out of a $37 router. This will likely eventually turn into a post on my blog but I figured I'd subject everyone here to the rough draft first  ... ... |
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edmidorTech - the hard wayPremium
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Canada | AFAIK Tomato has much smaller memory footprint, which is a good thing for Asterisk. It has QoS that actually works; and it just easier to operate.
If I was to install * on a router, I would only go Tomato or OpenWRT |
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said by HumanG :
Why do you need tomato firmware at all? I think some beta version of DD-WRT also support USB2 drives Emphasis mine.
Well, there was talk about having to hack the USB driver on DD-WRT to make it even work with my router. That didn't seem like a good idea. Tomato is also the most popular firmware amongst VoIP users that I know, I assume because of it's highly effective QoS, which edmidor mentioned.
I haven't tried QoS on any other open source firmware, but I can attest to QoS in Tomato working, and working very very well.
On that note. Oddly, it didn't work at all when using port-based QoS. But, it worked a treat when I used IP-based QoS. I have no idea why.
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