Setting up Asterisk on my Router

I finally did it. I bought an Asus RT-N16 Router. Installed Tomato Firware, then Optware and finally Asterisk. And I am very happy with it.

This was a feat, it is unbelievable how may stumbling blocks were in the way.

Major reason was now there is no need for a computer to be on for my phone to work!!!

I must thank teddybear (http://tomatousb.org/) for his incredible firmware. This was the major reason why I bought this specific router.

So why this router?

A 5 port GB Switch
Lots of Memory and horsepower (for a router)
N wireless
2 USB slots
AND runs TOMATO firmware

The router installation of Tomato was very simple thanks to the great website mentioned above.

I configured Tomato to allow SSH, USB mounting and a Cifs mount.

I also have a Western Digital World Home 2TB NAS drive. So I connected it using the CIFS feature in tomato. This way I can torrent directly to the NAS drive. A great option since this NAS drive has a built in media server to stream movies/music/pictures to my PS3 :) But that's another story.

Then I installed Optware, I first found the following website:

http://www.xtremecoders.org/forums/

which has some great installation packages. But there was some problems their version of Asterisk. So I used their Install Transmission only script which also installed optware.

http://www.xtremecoders.org/forums/f121/transmission-installation-utility-339/

I chose this method because it seemed they added some additional settings that seemed important.

Once it was working properly then I set my eyes on installing an configuring Asterisk.

I chose version 1.4 because it had a smaller footprint and I really only cared about SIP calls anyway.

More to come...