[Asterisk-Users] Cisco 7960 bug in 6.1 evident in Asterisk

[Clif Jones]

No they do not.  I am managing an installation running 7960 SIP release 
6.0 and the phones
are on about 4 different subnets. Half of these are on remote VPN 
connections at people's homes.

Chris Clifton wrote:

>So do the 7960's have to be on the same subnet as the * box ?
>
>This seems like a major detriment to using them in a typical wan
>environment.
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>- Chris Clifton
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>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Brian West" <brian at bkw.org>
>To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
>Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 1:58 PM
>Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Cisco 7960 bug in 6.1 evident in Asterisk
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>>Does the first line, backup and emergency proxy go to the * box on the
>>same wire?  Malcolm and I figured out the 7960's freak smooth out if the
>>asterisk server isn't on the same subnet his phones kept rebooting over
>>and over and over till we took them off the switch they were on and move
>>them to the one with the aterisk server.
>>
>>bkw
>>
>>On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, John Todd wrote:
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>>>Yes and no.  The Cisco phone is on a NAT network that is quite
>>>distant from one of the Asterisk servers, but on the same wire as the
>>>other.  Three lines go to the remote *, and three lines remain local
>>>on the network to the other * server.  I'm running CVS as of this
>>>morning on both servers.  Strangely, today the phone hasn't locked up
>>>or rebooted, though now I am getting one or two of the lines failing
>>>to REGISTER - they're simply not sending out a request, according to
>>>the network dump.  <sigh>
>>>
>>>JT
>>>
>>>
>>>At 7:43 AM -0600 2/4/04, Brian West wrote:
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>>>>Question.. is the 7960 on the same subnet as your asterisk server?  I
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>have
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>>>>a 7960 registered with 3 diffrent asterisk servers.  All 6 lines.
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>Running
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>>>>6.1 and has 12 days of uptime.
>>>>
>>>>bkw
>>>>
>>>>On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, John Todd wrote:
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>>>>> So, I've managed to consistently lock up my Cisco 7960 (SIP 6.1) to
>>>>> the point where it needs to be unplugged, due to software errors.
>>>>> This is a first.
>>>>>
>>>>> My suspicions are that this bug in Asterisk is causing the lockups:
>>>>>    http://bugs.digium.com/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0000889
>>>>>
>>>>> It seems unusual to me that a low volume of bogus SIP messages
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>should
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>>>>> lock up the 7960, but that seems to be the case.   It seems this
>>>>>          
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>only
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>>>>> happens on my 7960 that I have completely full of extensions (all
>>>>>          
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>six
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>>>>> line buttons are lit, two of them are auto-answer.)   I think this
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>is
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>>>>> one bug tickling another bug; bad messages from * are killing the
>>>>> 7960.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd like anyone else with experiences with this  type of failure
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>with
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>>>>> Asterisk to give me a shout; I'm going to report this to Cisco
>>>>> somehow, but don't have enough evidence.
>>>>>
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>> > JT
>>>>
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