[asterisk-users] Dell PowerEdge 2950 Sharing NIC IRQ with Digium Card

[Stephen Bosch]

Remco Barendse wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Matt wrote:
> 
>> Hi folks.. just a few weeks ago I wrote this to someone else:
>> ------------------------
>> We have several 2900s in production as VoIP servers.. no lockups.
>> On every server I go into the BIOS and:
>>
>> * Disable USB
>> * Disabled uneeded things like Parallel, Serial
>> * Put ETH0 on a seperate IRQ from the Digium card
>>
>> And everything's fine.  Dell's do NOT have to share IRQs... go into your
>> BIOS and change them
>> ------------------------
>>
>> And this is still true.  However, we recently got a 2950 to use as a VoIP
>> server with a digium 4 port TDM2400 (I believe) analog card.   Well
>> wouldn't
>> you know.... the Dell BIOS is showing NIC1 AND NIC2 AND Digium Card
>> sharing
>> the same IRQ.  No matter what I change one of them two, the other two
>> follow.   I've tried moving the Digium card to the other PCI slot and the
>> IRQ problem still exists.      I talked to Dell technical support and
>> they
>> said "oh all our new machines share IRQs like that, the way you are
>> trying
>> to do it is archaic".  What?!?!   The Dell tech guy kept saying that I
>> can
>> define an IRQ in Linux, and I kept telling him that I need two unique
>> (not
>> virtual) IRQs.. one for the NIC and one for the Digium card.  He said
>> "yeah
>> we've had other calls about Digium cards in these servers not working".
>> ARG!    Now I'm in a real quandry.
> 
> Lol, see my replies to the thread.  This crappy Dell shit always shares
> irq's.
> 
> For my next servers I'll be ordering Arima mainboards I think and
> assemble the things myself again.

Are those any good? I've had spotty luck with server boards.

-Stephen-