[Asterisk-Users] Performance: Xeon or Opteron?

[Anton Krall]

Has anybody used the sangoma fxo cards with asterisk? Anybody using multiple
cards? Problems with irq and such (same as with digium ones)?

 

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|From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com 
|[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
|John Novack
|Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 10:29 AM
|To: radamson at routers.com
|Cc: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
|Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Performance: Xeon or Opteron?
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|Rich Adamson wrote:
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|> While talking with one of the sangoma folks very recently, he was 
|> rather emphatic the pci bus was designed to "share" 
|interrupts. I was 
|> a little concerned as a test server had the wanpipe driver 
|sharing an 
|> interrupt with libata and uhc1_hcd. His comment was "that's the way 
|> its suppose to work, sharing interrupts as needed". I've not had any 
|> recognizable issues with the A200D card at all, and faxing 
|via a A200D 
|> fxs port to a A200D fxo (pstn) port functions 100% reliably.
|>
|> What that would suggest is the TDM400 pci firmware (whether on card 
|> logic or whatever) is the source of at least part of the 
|TDM400 shared 
|> interrupt issue. I don't have any digium T1/E1 cards laying around, 
|> but if memory serves correctly, the T1/E1 cards do not use the same 
|> pci controller chip. That would suggest the T1/E1 cards are 
|less of an 
|> issue then with the TDM400 card.
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|That's good to know, but considering the response from Digium 
|on the TDM400 ( try another motherboard) when there didn't 
|seem to even be an int. sharing issue, the card just couldn't 
|be seen at all , and the support I received from Sangoma on a 
|recent FXS issue that was resolved within a few days, I would 
|tend to go with Sangoma for the T1 card, if and when I have the need.
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|John Novack
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