Soekris Net5501

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Posted by jshay on 03 Mar 08 -

After running my home Asterisk setup on an old Dell desktop for the past year I decided to take the plunge in to an embedded system - a Soekris Net5501.

I settled on the 5501-60 which comes configured with the following:

  • Small form factor enclosure
  • 433 Mhz Geode processor
  • 256 Mbyte RAM
  • 4 Mbyte boot flash
  • 4 ethernet ports
  • 2 serial ports - one internal one external
  • USB port
  • CF socket
  • 44 pin IDE connector
  • SATA connector
  • Mini PCI socket
  • 3.3 Volt PCI connector

The first thing I did when it arrived was take the screws out of the case and take a look at the guts (Pics will follow in a future post). The footprint of the entire system is the size of a small 12 port switch.

After showing it off to some friends I quickly moved on to getting a combined Linux and Asterisk distro installed. I started with AstLinux.

Check back in a few days and I’ll provide a review :)

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