[Asterisk-Users] - Advice on NetFinity 5000 series

[Colin Anderson]

Hi, thanks for responding. For the record, I did get my 2 M20's running 1.0
stable with a T100P and a TDM400P with Fedora Core 2. Installation was
straightforward, and even facilitated by IBM's great design - there was no
problem allocating a power plug to plug into the TDM400P for example, as IBM
gives you an extra long periphrial power cable that easily reached to the
back of the rack case.
 
You do have to download IBM's ServeRaid boot disk to create the array - you
have to do this before you install Linux, but that worked fine. FC2 supports
ServeRaid out of the box.
 
So, with the 2 X servers + 2 X T100P + 2 TDM400P's my total outlay was just
under $3000 Cdn and I have emulated our Mitel ICP3300 dialplan exactly, plus
with a few new wrinkles (RAD / call overflow emulation, which is not
supported in the ICP3300, was a no brainer to do in the Asterisk dialplan. I
have cordless phones working as extensions which the 3300 is *supposed* to
support but doesn't really. I have SIP phones running in remote locations
which the 3300 supports, but only with *their* firewall, with *their* phones
and double-licenses). I have a production box and a development box. I
control the system. I don't have to pay for licenses anymore or crazy
hardware pricing. All for an order of magnitude less $$ than the 3300. My
boss is impressed all to hell. I'm happy. 
 
My only complaint is sidetone, it varies depending on client and how the
call terminates, so I'm on an echo hunt. Once I get it controlled, time to
punt the 3300. Anyone want it? 

-----Original Message-----   
From: tmassey at obscorp.com [mailto:tmassey at obscorp.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 10:51 AM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] - Advice on NetFinity 5000 series



asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com wrote on 10/07/2004 03:02:41 PM:

> I have an opportunity to pick up a couple of NetFinity 5500's 4 way Xeon
> 550's w/ 2 gig RAM for very little $$$
> 
> I have seen this:
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/asterisk-dev@lists.digium.com/msg00719.html
> 
> In it, there is a passing remark to the Digium cards having problems with
> NetFinity's. Can anyone here comment on whether this is still an issue
with
> * 1.0?
> 
> It'd be a bummer if compatibility is a showstopper here 'cause these are
> sweet servers at a sweet price. 

That was my message. 

I have a lot of Netfinity servers.  The 3500's are old, they do not support
PCI 2.2, and I've had problems with more than just Digium cards with those
servers (including IBM ServeRAID adapters:  you could not reboot them, you
had to power cycle them). 

I have both Netfinity 5500M20's (which you are describing) and 5600's that I
have used with Digium hardware successfully. 

Tim Massey 


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