[Asterisk-Users] high-capacity systems / trouble with Tyan

[Kristian Kielhofner]

Jim Gottlieb wrote:

> Hi.  We're looking for a reliable platform to run 12 or more T1s in a
> single system.  Very little or no transcoding.  Mostly IVR and some
> conferencing.
> 
> We have been been running 12 spans using Dual Athlon systems on an
> older Tyan motherboard and 1500 MP CPUs.  This works for about
> 9 or 10 spans before trouble starts.
> 
> We wanted to try the new AMD MP 2800 chips on the newer Tyan S2466
> motherboard, but the systems hang or panic (with DMA errors) after
> starting the zaptel drivers.  We tried putting the older slower CPUs on
> the new motherboard and had the same trouble.
> 
> We've tried to find other Athlon MP motherboards, but no one seems to
> have any non-Tyan boards in stock.
> 
> I know there are no simple answers to questions like this.  But we'd
> like to find a platform that can support as many spans as possible.
> 
> Any suggestions?  Should we try dual Opteron?  Dual Xeon?  Anyone have
> a source for non-Tyan dual Athlon motherboards?
> 
> Thanks...

Jim,

	I am running Asterisk and Zaptel on a S2466-4NM with no problems.  1 
gig Kingston ECC, 2200 MPs.  No T1 boards, though...

	I really like their Xeon boards as well, but I haven't tried * on them yet.

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Kristian Kielhofner