[asterisk-users] Dell Servers

[Christophorus Laube]

That depends on your distro. I have tested * with Beronet cards on OpenSuSE 
10, Debain Sarge and Ubuntu Edgy. What has to be blacklisted is every 
remainder of old ISDN stuff and hotplug modules (*php = * pci hot plug). As 
far as I know these cards are not hotpluggable at all and who wants to have a 
hotplug telephony gateway?

I also experienced asterisk crashes because of hotplug modules. But I have to 
admit that this was on an IBM machine. The responsible kernel module (I 
cannot remember which one that was) was polling for new pci hardware every 
now and then and that was something the card didn't like so it unloaded the 
mISDN kernel module and crashed asterisk.

On ubuntu (2950) I did not have to blacklist anything. On OpenSuSE (2850) I 
had to remove the complete old ISDN stuff.

Regards, Christophorus

> On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Christophorus Laube wrote:
> > We have a 2850 in a productive environment with a BNE1 performing well
> > (OpenSuSE 10) and a 2950 with BNE1 and BN8S0 also performing OK (on
> > Ubuntu Edgy). You only have to blacklist some hotplug kernel modules and
> > yes, we do have very long pings (1 ping per week with a check rate of
> > 10min per SNMP). But that does happen very rare and I never noticed any
> > dropped calls or bad audio quality. The 2850 is running on SCSI, the 2950
> > on an SAS RAID. In general I like the Dell machines, also with asterisk
> > on them. The only thing is that Openmanage ist quite bad to install but
> > that's nothing asterisk specific but linux related.
> > Does that help?
>
> Would you be willing to share your blacklist for the kernel modules?
>
> Thanks!!
>
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