[asterisk-biz] Recent REMOTE CRASH BUG

[zoachien at securax.org]

I think digium has something new now for pci compatibility now, dunno 
what exactly, i just vaguely remember something...


Zoa

Matt wrote:
> Howard,
> Actually you have tripped over another bad point and issue I have with 
> Digium.    First.. see my point about QMail and Dan B.... but to 
> address the other issue.   Up until recently I have been purchasing 
> Digium cards; after all.. what better way to support the company that 
> makes the PBX system I use?
>
> However, we will not be purchasing any more Digium cards until Digium 
> realizes that PCI is an extremely old standard.  As it stands right 
> now, and someone may correct me if I'm wrong, all Digium cards are 
> PCI-X, and hence have issues with sharing IRQs.    Unfortunately, as 
> you will see if you do a search on the mailing list, most new 
> motherboards insist on sharing IRQs with things... this causes audio 
> issues.   
>
> Until Digium gets with 2007, we will be purchasing Sangoma PCI-express 
> cards.   I hate to do it, because like I said I want to support 
> Digium, but their hardware is not staying with the times.
>
>  
>
>     This is not intended as a sermon but please remember that Asterisk
>     is an
>     open source project that Mark Spencer tripped over into as a business
>     plan.  The quality assurance process is for those of us who use
>     and sell
>     Asterisk systems to perform.  We contribute, we use and hopefully
>     we buy
>     interface cards from Digium as a thank you for maintaining Asterisk as
>     an open source project.
>
>     For if it were up to Digium to do all of the exhaustive quality
>     assurance that you imply, Asterisk would not be open source, freely
>     available or as useful.
>
>
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