[Asterisk-Dev] TE410P B-channel restart

[CW_ASN]

Peter Svensson wrote:

>On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Ma Zhiyong wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Hi,
>>    Fortunately I had got a TE410P card and I used it with *. Everything is OK except that I have found the spans restarted once each hour. Just like:
>>
>>Jan 31 10:42:37 VERBOSE[3266]:     -- B-channel 0/1 restarted on span 3
>>... ...
>>Jan 31 11:42:40 VERBOSE[3266]:     -- B-channel 0/1 restarted on span 3
>>... ...
>>Jan 31 12:42:44 VERBOSE[3266]:     -- B-channel 0/1 restarted on span 3
>>... ...
>>Jan 31 13:42:47 VERBOSE[3266]:     -- B-channel 0/1 restarted on span 3
>>... ...
>>
>>    Is this a timing problem? Thanks.
>>    
>>
>
>This is not a problem, or at least working as intended. Asterisk restarts 
>all idle lines once an hour. This helps if the state machines on either 
>end of the isdn link gets out of sync, thinking an idle line is not idle.
>
>However, some pieces of equipment do no like these resets and drop all 
>lines and not only those requested in the restart message. The interval 
>can be adjusted with the "resetinterval" parameter in zapata.conf. To 
>disable the resets it can be set to a huge value.
>
>Peter
>  
>
The network side of ISDN restarts idle channels. CPE side never initiate 
a restart. Asterisk should ignore the timer if is set as CPE.

Regards,

Gus