[Asterisk-Users] PRI Errors

[Andrew McRory]

On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Scott Stingel wrote:

> Hi Andrew-
> 
> The "unknown error 500" and the frame rejects are somewhat normal - I get
> thousands of these in a busy IVR system.  The underlying cause for these, I
> think, is that your processor occasionally does not keep up with the frame
> transmitter on the PRI board - something that will happen from time to time,
> and asterisk should recover.  (although, as previously discussed, asterisk's
> minimal error handling makes this worse than it should be)
> 
> The red alarms indicate a loss of synchronisation, or a very high bit error
> rate.  This is a basic problem and should not occur.  Are you sure the
> switch is not shutting down the T1's as part of some housekeeping?

Scott,

Thanks for the reply.  The radius logs show everyone was dropped at the
same time but they were back on in a minute so it wasn't too drastic. Of
course I will check to see if there was any maintenance going on at that
time and keep the list appraised as time goes on.

Regards,

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