[Asterisk-bsd] Zaptel and SMP

[Tim St. Pierre]

I'm using Zaptel on SMP,
or at least I tried to.

I'm running FreeBSD 5.4, on a triple Xeon Compaq machine.  I think it was 
zaptel version 0.11.  Running the ztdummy module works okay, as long as you 
don't stop asterisk.  Then you have to restart the machine.  It sometimes 
crashes when I use conferencing though, and more than two IAX channels per 
connection seems to have quality problems.  The kernel timing selection seems 
to make a difference as well.  I had better luck with 
kern.timecounter.hardware=ACPI-safe using sysctl

If you have any real hardware, be prepared for a crash.  I installed a WCT 
with one FXO port just as a timer.  It all seemed to work fine, until the 
next day when someone made calls over an IAX trunk and brought the whole 
system down.  The only thing that seemed to fix it was not loading the other 
modules.

I haven't tried it with T1 interfaces, only the analog boards.  All the 
problems occured after I built the SMP kernel.

I would really like to see this working.  I don't want to go to Linux either.


On July 6, 2006 10:47, Ninneman, Tj wrote:
> Just curious if anybody knows the status of the Zaptel driver with regards
> to SMP?  I need to setup an Asterisk machine for a client, have two TDM400s
> lying around and I really don't want to have to use linux to do it.  I
> would be at least curious to know anybody's experiences using the Zaptel
> driver on an SMP machine.
>
>
>
> Thanks so much for any input!
>
>
>
> TJ Ninneman

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