<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Greg Woods <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:greg@gregandeva.net">greg@gregandeva.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I am having to abandon asterisk after having used it for 2.5 years due<br>
to this problem. Every couple of days (sometimes more often, sometimes<br>
less), the machine will lock up because the TDM board or the Dahdi<br>
driver goes south. /var/log/messages starts filling up with repeated<br>
messages:<br>
<br>
kernel: TDM PCI Master abort<br>
<br>
The card I have is:<br>
<br>
*CLI> dahdi show status<br>
Description Alarms IRQ bpviol<br>
CRC4<br>
Wildcard TDM400P REV I Board 5 OK 0 0<br>
0<br>
<br>
<br>
I asked about this once before and I am asking again in desperation, as<br>
I have had to shut off my asterisk server, take all the VOIP phones out<br>
of service, and go back to the bad old days of a single cordless phone<br>
base with a couple of handsets and a crappy old WalMart answering<br>
machine. This sucks.<br>
<br>
Last time I asked, the most helpful answer I got was privately, saying<br>
that either my card is bad, or I might need a different motherboard (but<br>
there is no way I know of to know which motherboards would work and<br>
which would not; the last thing I would want is to go through the<br>
expense and major hassle of swapping motherboards only to find out that<br>
the problem is not fixed).<br>
<br>
The only decent diagnostic I have is that if I catch it soon enough,<br>
before the system totally locks up, then stopping asterisk, restarting<br>
dahdi, and starting asterisk gets things working again (until the next<br>
incident). Also, I can go into asterisk -r and do "dahdi show status"<br>
and the card doesn't have any alarms; the output is the same as above,<br>
even as the PCI Master abort messages are spewing into the syslog.<br>
<br>
If my Wildcard TDM board is bad, is there anything I can do about it, or<br>
am I just S.O.L. after this much time? The blasted card costs as much as<br>
a new machine; either way I can't afford it right now. I don't want to<br>
abandon asterisk as it has so many nice features, but I am running low<br>
on alternatives at the moment.<br>
<br>
--Greg<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>How many lines are you talking about? In light of your budget issues, I would switch to quality SIP provider and have my numbers ported.<br><br>That would most likely be cheaper in the long and short run, and more reliable depending on the vendor and your internet connection.<br>
<br>Other options are going back to old versions of Asterisk. What version are you running? What was wrong with the version from 1.5 years ago? Maybe your card likes being a Zap device, rather than a DAHDI.<br><br>You could make a cron job to reboot the machine at midnight, daily.<br>
<br>I have a box full of Digium cards with all sorts of modules, I could "sell" you what you need for the price of postage but I really think SIP is your silver bullet.<br><br>I push over $12k a week of outbound traffic through VoicePulse (never would of considered this a year or two ago) with absolutely no issues.<br>
<br>Vitelity is pretty good and low priced as well but I have never used them anywhere near the above.<br><br>Best of luck in this economy,<br>Steve Totaro<br></div></div><br>