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[Kevin P. Fleming]

Tzafrir Cohen wrote:

> A. Zaptel started, but module provideing the ting hasn't yet (either
> ztdummy, or ztcfg was not run for a different module). This is indeed a
> configuration error. But would be mostly harmless till now. 
> 
> B. Timing from a E1/T1 card that is not in sync but is listed to give
> timing. It should be possible for me to restart Asterisk when the cable
> to the card is disconnected or when the telco's side is misconfigured.

As you can see from the many threads on asterisk-users where lack of an
available timing source causes problems that the users can't reasonably
debug (many of those threads you even help the users in, thanks!), I
think we need to err on the side of not attempting to run Asterisk when
the timing source is not operating but we've been told to use it.

I would support a command line option to skip this check, if the user
wants to specify it so that they can run Asterisk for some other
(non-normal usage) purpose since they believe they know what they are doing.

-- 
Kevin P. Fleming
Director of Software Technologies
Digium, Inc. - "The Genuine Asterisk Experience" (TM)