[asterisk-r2] Question about format of R2 channels in zapata.conf
Moises Silva
moises.silva at gmail.com
Tue Jan 26 19:14:01 CST 2010
That is a known internal limitation in Asterisk-R2 code for 1.4, nothing to
do with openr2 itself. For each comma a new r2link is created and there is a
limit of about 32 links, on the other hand, separating by a dash just adds
all the channels to the same r2link.
It's relatively easy to fix but requires changing the C source code for the
openr2-asterisk-1.4.21.patch and I have decided that I will not touch
Asterisk 1.4 R2 code except for bug fixes and paid consultancy.
Asterisk 1.6 R2 code does not has this limitation.
But seriously, why someone could think of generating such file if it's just
easier to read and arguably even parse, 1-15,17-31??
--
Moises Silva
Senior Software Engineer
Sangoma Technologies Inc. | 50 McIntosh Drive, Suite 120, Markham ON L3R 9T3
Canada
t. 1 905 474 1990 x 128 | e. moy at sangoma.com
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Norman Schmidt
<norman at omegatecnologia.com>wrote:
> Hello,
> Some time ago I wrote a php script which generates the zaptel/zapata.conf
> files.
> Recently I discovered a problem directly related to the format I use to
> represent the channels at zapata.conf.
>
> Im using the last pre-dahdi asterisk/zaptel version:
> - Asterisk 1.4.21.2 built by root @ servidor on a i686 running Linux on
> 2009-04-12 19:48:21 UTC
> - Zaptel version 1.4.12.1
> - OpenR2 patch downloaded from:
> http://openr2.googlecode.com/files/openr2-asterisk-1.4.21.patch
> - OpenR2 version: 1.1.0, revision: exported
> - LibopenR2 version 1.1.0 download from:
> http://openr2.googlecode.com/files/openr2-1.1.0.tar.gz
>
> The problem arises when Im using more than one E1 port interface. I traced
> it down to the "channels" directive, at zapata.conf. Lets say Im using a
> 2xE1 interface and I set the "channel=" directive this way at zapata.conf:
>
> signalling=mfcr2
> context=um
> mfcr2_etcetcetc options
> group=1
> channel=1-15,17-31
>
> signalling=mfcr2
> context=dois
> mfcr2_etcetcetc options
> group=2
> channel=32-46,48-62
>
> Everything works perfectly. All channels available, working:
> gw*CLI> mfcr2 show channels
> Chan Variant Max ANI Max DNIS ANI First Immediate Accept Tx CAS Rx CAS
> 1 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 2 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 3 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 4 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 5 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 6 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 7 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 8 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 9 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 10 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 11 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 12 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 13 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 14 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 15 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 17 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 18 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 19 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 20 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 21 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 22 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 23 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 24 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 25 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 26 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 27 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 28 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 29 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 30 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 31 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 32 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 33 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 34 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 35 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 36 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 37 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 38 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 39 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 40 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 41 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 42 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 43 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 44 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 45 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 46 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 48 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 49 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 50 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 51 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 52 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 53 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 54 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 55 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 56 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 57 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 58 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 59 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 60 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 61 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
> 62 BR 20 20 No No IDLE IDLE
>
> * BUT * If I set the "channel=" directives the following way (the way my
> script generates them):
>
> signalling=mfcr2
> context=um
> mfcr2_etcetcetc options
> group=1
>
> channel=1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31
>
> signalling=mfcr2
> context=dois
> mfcr2_etcetcetc options
> group=2
>
> channel=32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62
>
> Only 34 channels are made available, and there is NO WAY I can use the
> channels 34-62 :
>
> gw*CLI> mfcr2 show channels
> Chan Variant Max ANI Max DNIS ANI First Immediate Accept Tx CAS Rx CAS
> 1 BR 20 20 No No IDLE BLOCK
> 2 BR 20 20 No No IDLE BLOCK
> 3 BR 20 20 No No IDLE BLOCK
> 4 BR 20 20 No No IDLE BLOCK
> 5 BR 20 20 No No IDLE BLOCK
> 6 BR 20 20 No No IDLE BLOCK
> 7 BR 20 20 No No IDLE BLOCK
> 8 BR 20 20 No No IDLE BLOCK
> 9 BR 20 20 No No IDLE BLOCK
> 10 BR 20 20 No No IDLE BLOCK
> 11 BR 20 20 No No IDLE BLOCK
> 12 BR 20 20 No No IDLE BLOCK
> 13 BR 20 20 No No IDLE BLOCK
> 14 BR 20 20 No No IDLE BLOCK
> 15 BR 20 20 No No IDLE BLOCK
> 17 BR 20 20 No No IDLE BLOCK
> 18 BR 20 20 No No IDLE BLOCK
> 19 BR 20 20 No No IDLE BLOCK
> 20 BR 20 20 No No IDLE BLOCK
> 21 BR 20 20 No No IDLE BLOCK
> 22 BR 20 20 No No IDLE BLOCK
> 23 BR 20 20 No No IDLE BLOCK
> 24 BR 20 20 No No IDLE BLOCK
> 25 BR 20 20 No No IDLE BLOCK
> 26 BR 20 20 No No IDLE BLOCK
> 27 BR 20 20 No No IDLE BLOCK
> 28 BR 20 20 No No IDLE BLOCK
> 29 BR 20 20 No No IDLE BLOCK
> 30 BR 20 20 No No IDLE BLOCK
> 31 BR 20 20 No No IDLE BLOCK
> 32 BR 20 20 No No IDLE BLOCK
> 33 BR 20 20 No No IDLE BLOCK
>
> I use this "one-channel-at-a-time-with-commas" format of channel=
> directives
> with PRI E1 ports with *no* problems. I can even MIX PRI E1 ports with R2
> ports in a Quad E1 interface, and the problem arises only when Im using
> this
> format on more than one E1 port with mfcr2 signalling. The zaptel.conf file
> accepts both formats, for both types of signalling.
>
> Resuming, on zapata.conf, this:
>
> channel=1-15,17-31
> channel=32-46,48-62
>
> works with signalling=mfcr2
> while this:
>
>
> channel=1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31
>
> channel=32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62
>
> does not. Does libopenR2 not accept the long format?
>
> Norman
>
>
>
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