[Asterisk-Users] "Glare" condition - How well does asterisk handle?

[tpanton at attglobal.net]

"W. Kevin Hunt" <Kevin at hbcorporate.com> wrote:
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>Well that certainly seems to say there can be glare, but a read of the
>q.931 protocal stack seems to suport that it's not possible.  If I were
>a leser man, I could say a snide remark about that if you click the home
>icon, it is apparent the document is referring to a driver and s/w for
>the Microsoft operating system to implement the PRI protocol ;)

Which would be unfair, because 
Dialogic implement the pri protocols
on the card, with a 486 and a heap of
dsps on the one I have. Microsoft don't get a look in.
This is a blessing and a curse.
The good points are that they can get the card authorised for various telcos without reference to the os or cpu. Also it means that as a developer you are isolated from the
os (somewhat). Also you can use it in
an underpowered box, my E1 card is in a 180Mhz pentium pro!
The downside is that the card is big and runs _hot_. Also Asterisk doesnt 
like it because it wants to get closer to the metal.

On which subject, has anyone else 
got time to work with me on a chan_dialogicGC ? It looks do-able but I am ignorant of how asterisk does threading.
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>W. Kevin Hunt
>CCIE #11841
>www.huntbrothers.com