[asterisk-users] Cisco 7960 Won'

[Michiel van Baak]

On 13:52, Fri 31 Aug 07, Jason Parker wrote:
> Dan Austin wrote:
> > Shawn wrote:
> >> I'm having a wierd problem with a Cisco 7960 (sccp2)
> >> and asterisk (1.4.2)
> > 
> >> If the call that I'm trying to make goes through, 
> >> everything works fine.  But if there's any sort of 
> >> error (like me messing around in my extensions.conf,
> >> etc). I can't get the connection to drop.  ie: If I get 
> >> the conjestion tone and hang up the phone, I can do a 
> >> sccp show channels I can see that the channel is still
> >> in use (even after several minutes).  If I pick up the 
> >> phone to attempt to make another call, I get an error 
> >> that it can't put the current call on hold to start
> >> the new call.
> > 
> >> What am I missing?
> > An upgrade.
> > 
> > The sccp channel in early 1.4 had quite a number of problems,
> > and it was completely broken in 1.4.3 to 1.4.6
> > 
> > Any version after 1.4.7 should work better, with the latest
> > being the best choice.
> > 
> > Dan
> > 
> 
> Well, he's also using chan_sccp, so no amount of upgrading is going to help
> with that.
> 
> In my opinion (and I think Dan and several others would agree), chan_skinny is
> far more stable (and active...) than chan_sccp.

as on of the 'several outhers' I totally agree.
We used to run chan_sccp for our kirk setup and some cisco
phones.
The switch to chan_skinny made everything usable again :)
The random crashes and lockups you get with chan_sccp are
too annoying :)
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