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

[Clif Jones]

The asterisk PBX is on a private subnet 192.168.20.0, the 7960's are on 
192.168.{20,200,201,202,203}.0
subnets.  The SIP gateways are on 192.168.{15,20,22,13}.0 subnets.


Chris Clifton wrote:

>And the * server is in your hq location ?
>
>Thanks,
>Chris Clifton
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Clif Jones" <ctjones at earthlink.net>
>To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
>Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 9:02 AM
>Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Cisco 7960 bug in 6.1 evident in Asterisk
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>>No they do not.  I am managing an installation running 7960 SIP release
>>6.0 and the phones
>>are on about 4 different subnets. Half of these are on remote VPN
>>connections at people's homes.
>>
>>Chris Clifton wrote:
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>>>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
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>>>>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:
>>>>
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>>>>>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
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>>>have
>>>
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>>>>>>a 7960 registered with 3 diffrent asterisk servers.  All 6 lines.
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>>>Running
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>>>
>>>>>>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
>>>
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>>>      
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>>>>>>>lock up the 7960, but that seems to be the case.   It seems this
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>              
>>>>>>>
>>>only
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>>>>>>>happens on my 7960 that I have completely full of extensions (all
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>              
>>>>>>>
>>>six
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>>>>>>>line buttons are lit, two of them are auto-answer.)   I think this
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>              
>>>>>>>
>>>is
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>>>>>>>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
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>>>>>>>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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