[Asterisk-Users] four wildcards in a single pc

[Dave Cotton]

On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 14:23 +0200, Shoval Tomer wrote:
> Hi.
> Please excuse me asking this again. But it really puzzles me.
> 
> We're installing asterisk at a branch office at NJ (HQ is at
> Petach-Tikva)
> It'll need to support 5 POTS lines, 11 analog extensions and four VOIP
> phones.
> 
> I wanted to go with a T1 card from digium and a channel bank, but we
> have a dead line. It has to be up and running by January 1st.
> I don't have the time to start shopping at ebay, where you don't know
> what you'll get, and you need to install, under time pressure something
> you not familiar with.
> 
> So I thought of installing a combination of four pci cards in the
> machine, and everybody on the list just keeps telling me it won't work.
> 
> I have installed successfully more then four cards in a machine before.
> I had a firewall with eight network interfaces (one quad card, one duo
> and two singles)
> I have machines with two dialogic boards, a pci display card, and a
> network interface.
> And I know I've had machines at home that had a display adaptor, modem,
> network, scsi, and soundblaster all together.
> 
> Yet, people claim it won't work because of lack of IRQs, and that it's
> not related to Digium.
> 
> What am I missing?

Perhaps I'm missing something.

If you think everyone else is wrong why don't you just carry on and do
it. If you're right you can tell everyone, if you prove everyone right
you might even join the chorus when some one else starts the same
thread.

Just my 0.02€

-- 
Dave Cotton <dcotton at linuxautrement.com>