[asterisk-users] Newbie in China: Red alaram in Zaptel for E1

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:04:43AM -0500, Tilghman Lesher wrote:
> On Monday 28 July 2008 22:48:26 Lee, John (Sydney) wrote:
> > This time, I am trying to remotely install Asterisk in China.
> > I was told that an E1 line has been installed and so I plug it into port
> > 1 of a TE412P.
> 
> Are you sure that they're plugged into port 1 and not port 4?  It is a rather
> common mistake to believe that the port numbers start at the bottom of
> the card and not at the top.

The test for that is simple:

  head -n 1 /proc/zaptel/*

Let's look at all four spans. Not just the first one.

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