[asterisk-users] Asterisk in Production ?

Tue May 6 09:44:20 CDT 2008

I'm using 1.4.18 in production on 2 boxes... one of which being a custom built desktop basically, the other being a Dell 1950 III

We are in a migration phase to the Dell box, right now the 1st box is doing nothing more than being a PSTN gateway to some FXO lines... basically waiting for numbers to be ported off the analog lines and onto the new T1 which is connected to the Dell box.

We have the 2 boxes connected by IAX2 trunk.

I had 1.4.19 and 1.4.19.1 running on the Dell box, but it started giving me a lot of trouble with the IAX2 trunk, the trunk would (seemingly) go into UNREACHABLE status and never come back without restarting asterisk (reload, or iax2 reload wouldn’t cut it).  Also, occasionally people trying to make outbound calls (and this probably happened on inbound as well), would get a "all circuits are busy" message because of the IAX2 channel driver reporting congestion on the trunk even though it was up (and not congested)....

Unfortunately as this is a production box I didn’t really have time to try and debug it so I simply downgraded to .18 since it has proven itself well on the 1st box.  So far since I;ve downgraded to .18 I haven’t had any problems.

Both installs I have running ontop of Gentoo (wouldn’t recommend it if you are new to Linux or don’t like tweak-ability).

That all being said, I'll probably give .20 a try when its released, as I see there have been some IAX2 bug fixes in it... but also by the time .20 is released I probably will have retired the box being used as a PSTN gateway and won’t need the IAX2 trunk anymore.

--
Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Vinícius Fontes
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 8:11 AM
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Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk in Production ?

There were some really unstable Asterisk releases in the 1.4 branch. I personally use 1.4.13 or 1.4.15 in production. Every single time I tried 1.4.16 or higher I had problems.

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----- "Steve Totaro" <stotaro at totarotechnologies.com> escreveu:

> On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 7:38 AM, Benoit Plessis <benoit at plessis.info>
> wrote:
> >
> >  Hi,
> >
> >  I'm wondering what version of asterisk people use in production
> >  environnement ?
> >  on which distribution ?
> >
> >  And what is your setup like ?
> >
> >  We are actually running an AsteriskNow appliance with asterisk
> 1.4.18.1
> >  and it's quite unstable.
> >  We have ~30 IAX2 SoftPhones and encounter some "Avoiding IAX
> destroy
> >  deadlock"
> >  and now that we have added a Queue, it's worse than ever. The queue
> goes
> >  stuck quite often
> >  (agent are stuck in 'In use' state and if they logoff they can't
> log-in
> >  till an asterisk restart).
> >
> >
> >  regards
> >
>
> I am personally a proponent of Asterisk 1.2.X as I see more and more
> fatal bugs in the 1.4.X code come up on the lists as well as IAX2
> bugs.  I constantly hear "Asterisk 1.4.whatever is much better, but
> the bugs coming out are not just unexpected behavior that one could
> live with, they are segfaults, system crashes, modules not getting
> installed (Zaptel).
>
> I use SIP since I have seen quite a few issues with IAX2 that were
> solved by simply switching to SIP.
>
> The above two yield solid systems under heavy load for me.  OS is not
> so important I do not believe.  I have some running FC8 and more
> running CentOS, both rock solid.  I think the general consensus on OS
> is use what you are most familiar with.
>
> While these may not be popular opinions, I still ask, what does
> SwitchVox use?  What do some of the guys around here that setup large
> systems use?  Is ABE even using 1.4 yet?  All I see in the ABE
> release
> notes is 1.2 although I have heard that ABE should be running 1.4
> "Very Soon" many many moons ago
> http://www.digium.com/en/docs/ABE/README .  So either Digium doesn't
> trust 1.4 enough to use it for ABE or the README is out of date.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve Totaro
>
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