Hello,

the issue does occour some seconds after connection the line - but the
hard reboot takes some time...

The cards are TE420 (4th Gen) - version c01a016a.

Zaptel ist 1.4.12.1

The firmware on digium cards can not get flashed - or i am wrong (i have
never heard about that)

regards,
Wolfgang

Am Freitag, den 24.04.2009, 06:50 -0400 schrieb Matt Florell: 
> Hello,
> 
> I would suggest that you first methodically try every possible
> combination of zaptel.conf timing settings(each change follwed by a
> hard reboot of the Asterisk server) to see if there is a magic
> combination of settings that will work. I don't know if you have the
> time for that, or if it takes a while for the timing issues to appear,
> but that is what I would try.
> 
> If that still doesn't work, we have solved similar issues with older(2
> years ago) Digium quad cards by switching to Sangoma hardware that
> offers more options for forcing timing in it's wanpipe driver
> software. Although when I posted about this before in another thread
> the folks from Digium swear that newer Digium cards(with newer
> firmware) do not have this problem using the newer Dahdi drivers.
> 
> What version of Zaptel are you using and how old is your Digium card?
> 
> 
> MATT---
> 
> 
> On 4/24/09, Wolfgang Pichler <wpichler@yosd.at> wrote:
> > hi all,
> >
> >  we do have some troubles with zaptel timing source - we have a setup
> >  with 3 telco PRI lines, connected to asterisk digium card 0 - asterisk
> >  does some handling - calls are leaving on digium card 1 - going to a
> >  siemens hipath - there is some call handling - some of the calls then
> >  are going from the hipath over a qsig line to a bosch integral PBX -
> >  handling the rest of the calls.
> >
> >  To be able to get away from the bosch system - we like to put asterisk
> >  (1 port free on each card) in the middle of the path siemens -> bosch -
> >  so that it will be siemens -> card 0 asterisk card 1 -> bosch.
> >
> >  Currently the Siemens hipath is playing the network side - the bosch is
> >  cpe. So the siemens hipath does provide the timing source.
> >
> >  With asterisk in the middle i can not take the timing source from the
> >  siemens link - because i have already the telco line as timing source.
> >  But when starting it in this setup - i will get lots of "timing source
> >  auto card 0!" messages. So i think the siemens timing is not in sync.
> >  with the telco timing - so mixed up on asterisk with telco line as
> >  primary timing will not work when the siemens does try to deliver
> >  timing.
> >
> >  I have not tried as /etc/zaptel.conf parameter 0 als timing parameter (0
> >  = be master) - but i think it wont work because the siemens wont accept
> >  the timing from the asterisk box.
> >
> >  Changing configuration of the siemens is not possible.
> >
> >  So - here the questions...
> >   - is it possible to do what i want to do ?
> >   - do you think timing=0 in zaptel.conf will work ?
> >   - would it be possible to connect a xorcom 2 PRI channel bank to
> >  asterisk to handle the qsig line between the two ? Or will the xorcom
> >  then also take the timing from the digum cards - telco lines ?
> >
> >  any hints would be nice...
> >
> >  many thanks
> >  Wolfgang
> >
> >
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