[Asterisk-Users] Dell 2850 anyone ...

[Jennifer Hales]

Hello,

We have experienced problems with our Dell 2850 as well.  Asterisk would
slow down and people calling in would not be able to get through (receive an
engaged signal).  I had a chat to Digium and they advised that they
experienced occasional issues where the Intel gigabit ethernet module for
some reason (occasionally) causes the interrupt for the zaptel driver to be
removed. What we captured was our network cards stopping and starting again
when these symptoms occurred.  We have now replaced our network cards in the
machine and are still waiting to see if this has fixed our problem.  I hope
this is of some help.

Regards
Jennifer Hales

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Connection
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Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Dell 2850 anyone ...

Hi Bill,

We just built one for a customer with Fedora Core 3 and a TE210.  We get PCI
parity errors and the machine shuts down.  I'm sure we'll get it working,
but it hasn't exactly been the smoothest install ever. 

I agree that the second CPU and GB of RAM is probably overkill and as you
know, I also share your bias towards two smaller servers as opposed to one
big one. -Mike

Michael Crown
Managing Partner
www.thevoipconnection.com
321.989.6728 ext. 611
sip:611 at voiceserver.thevoipconnection.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Boehlke [mailto:william.boehlke at signate.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 5:32 PM
> To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'
> Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Dell 2850 anyone ...
> 
> 
> We successfully use 2850s with Digium T1 cards, though I 
> don't think we've installed a TE411P.  It'll handle two T1s 
> with ease. 
> 
> You don't need the second processor or the second GB of RAM 
> for the expected load. For your configuration we would 
> usually use two single processor 1u servers with RAID 1 for 
> roughly the same cost so we're not vulnerable to a 
> motherboard failure. 
> 
> William Boehlke
> Signate
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
> Alan Bunch
> Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 2:18 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Dell 2850 anyone ...
> 
> Can anyone comment or share experences with using Dell 2850's 
> with Asterisk.
> 
> Proposed config is 2850, 2 x 3.6g procs, 2 g's of ram, 4 x 
> 36g 15k rpm drives raid 10,  Digium TE411P ( the echo 
> cancelling cards ).
> 
> Expected load is 1 or 2 pri's (most likely 1 ) 100 Polycom 
> phones on the local network, 15 phone on a remote T1. 6 phone 
> remote via the internet using IAX,  Voicemail for 125 users.  
> As little transcoding as possible.
> G.729 licenses.
> 
> If Dell is not the answer how about sharing what works.  I do 
> need a natinal brand that I can take to managment.
> 
> Alan
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