[Asterisk-Users] Cisco 7960 bug in 6.1 evident in Asterisk

[Chris Clifton]

So do the 7960's have to be on the same subnet as the * box ?

This seems like a major detriment to using them in a typical wan
environment.

- Chris Clifton

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian West" <brian at bkw.org>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Cisco 7960 bug in 6.1 evident in Asterisk


> Does the first line, backup and emergency proxy go to the * box on the
> same wire?  Malcolm and I figured out the 7960's freak smooth out if the
> asterisk server isn't on the same subnet his phones kept rebooting over
> and over and over till we took them off the switch they were on and move
> them to the one with the aterisk server.
>
> bkw
>
> On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, John Todd wrote:
>
> > Yes and no.  The Cisco phone is on a NAT network that is quite
> > distant from one of the Asterisk servers, but on the same wire as the
> > other.  Three lines go to the remote *, and three lines remain local
> > on the network to the other * server.  I'm running CVS as of this
> > morning on both servers.  Strangely, today the phone hasn't locked up
> > or rebooted, though now I am getting one or two of the lines failing
> > to REGISTER - they're simply not sending out a request, according to
> > the network dump.  <sigh>
> >
> > JT
> >
> >
> > At 7:43 AM -0600 2/4/04, Brian West wrote:
> > >
> > >Question.. is the 7960 on the same subnet as your asterisk server?  I
have
> > >a 7960 registered with 3 diffrent asterisk servers.  All 6 lines.
Running
> > >6.1 and has 12 days of uptime.
> > >
> > >bkw
> > >
> > >On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, John Todd wrote:
> > >
> > >>
> > >>  So, I've managed to consistently lock up my Cisco 7960 (SIP 6.1) to
> > >>  the point where it needs to be unplugged, due to software errors.
> > >>  This is a first.
> > >>
> > >>  My suspicions are that this bug in Asterisk is causing the lockups:
> > >>     http://bugs.digium.com/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0000889
> > >>
> > >>  It seems unusual to me that a low volume of bogus SIP messages
should
> > >>  lock up the 7960, but that seems to be the case.   It seems this
only
> > >>  happens on my 7960 that I have completely full of extensions (all
six
> > >>  line buttons are lit, two of them are auto-answer.)   I think this
is
> > >>  one bug tickling another bug; bad messages from * are killing the
> > >>  7960.
> > >>
> > >>  I'd like anyone else with experiences with this  type of failure
with
> > >>  Asterisk to give me a shout; I'm going to report this to Cisco
> > >>  somehow, but don't have enough evidence.
> > >>
> > >  > JT
> > >
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