[Asterisk-Users] TDM400P lockups (FXO)

[Michael George]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 10:08:19AM -0400, Alok K. Dhir wrote:
> Hey all - we have two TDM400P cards in an SMP Redhat9 box, with 4 FXO 
> ports each running thel latest Asterisk CVS.
> 
> Users connect to this to share POTS lines using analog phones connected 
> to Sipura SPA-2000 boxes.  All works reasonably well, except every day 
> (or more) a line will get "locked up".  No other way to describe it 
> really -- the line just stops working, so if someone tries to dial out, 
> and they happen to get assigned that port, all they hear is silence.
> 
> The only way to unlock the port is to stop asterisk, and unload and 
> reload the zaptel drivers (service zaptel restart), and then restart 
> asterisk.

I wish I could do this.  The times I've had ports lockup I was able to unload
the drivers, but I would get complaints on reload, so I had to restart the
computer.

That *really* aggitates me.

> I've seen other posts on the list referring to similar (same?) issues, 
> but no resolutions.  I have been staying current with the CVS version 
> biweekly in hopes the problem will get resolved at some point.  I have 
> contacted Digium support (via email) about the issue.
> 
> Has anyone made any headway with this problem?

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