Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 06:18:47 -0600 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: martes.wigglesworth@earthlink.net Cc: freebsd-isp list <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: VOIP/Telephony Applications/Embedded Systems info... Message-ID: <41B1AB27.6000504@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <1102156965.74851.386.camel@Mobile1.276NET> References: <1102156965.74851.386.camel@Mobile1.276NET>
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Martes Wigglesworth wrote: > Greetings list. > > Do any of you guys have any experience building embedded systems, like > homemade routers, or anything like that? I was wondering where I could > find some good information. I have the "Embedded Freebsd Cook Book," > however, I am just beginning programming, and have no idea how to > empliment the "out-of-context" mixed explanations about the patches that > the auther mentions. Where can I find a good book about Freebsd kernel > programming? I am ordering the C book that was written in like the 70's > and some other books, however, I just wanted some functional knowledge, > instead of having to wait until I get to page 300 and whatever, before I > could truely understand the 100 and whatever page cook book. > > And also, do any of you do anything with hosting Voice Over IP, or just > Internet Telephony Applications? Looking for that stuff too. I guess > I am thinking about building a telephony gateway/everything gateway, for > my home office, as an experimental trial for my production environment. I built custom firewall/VPN routers for our companies' employees to connect to work from home. I used Soekris boxes running on 64mb compact flash cards with FreeBSD on them. There wasn't a guide or how-to then, but there are tons of them now, and there are even some prebuilt/packaged embedded FreeBSD distros that you can build and customize. Some that come to mind are emBSD, monowall, and nanobsd. If you are wanting to build a truly embedded type device, that is very stripped, then you'll have to do a bit of programming and hacking for sure. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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