[Asterisk-Users] chan_capi or chan_mISDN vs bristuff

[Robert Rozman]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michiel van Baak" <michiel at vanbaak.info>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] chan_capi or chan_mISDN vs bristuff


> On 14:10, Fri 11 Feb 05, Remco Barende wrote:
> > Hi list!
> >
> > I'm currently using a HFC-S card for my ISDN BRI line with bristuff. The
> > instability is driving me crazy however.
> >
> > I'm having continuous problems where inbound calls will not work after
> > some time of operation (the number then appears as not in use to the
> > caller) or also outbound calls do not work.
> >
> > The solution is to unload the modules, stop asterisk, re-load the
modules
> > and start asterisk again. The machine (Athlon64) already hung several
> > times when unloading the modules (I guess the same bug/problem is is
> > reported for SMP boxes).
> >
> > This problem occurs every single day and giving me really grey hairs.
> >
> > If I ditch the HFC-S card and replace it with another card that will
work
> > with mISDN or chan_capi will this solve my problems?
> >
> > Thanks for any hints / tips!
> > Remco
>
> Hi,
>
> We had the same trouble. It made me trash the HFC-S cards
> and now we are running on 2 Fritz! cards on the default
> Debian asterisk install. Even the chan_capi is included in
> Debian, and it works great. Dont test the i4l drivers tho,
> they will give you the same trouble as the zaphfc driver.
> For the first time in 3 months we now have our * box up and
> running without any issues for more than a day.
> So yes, from my point of view, installing chan_capi will
> solve your issues as it solved mine.

Hi,

could you give some more info about your setup. How do you get 2 fritz cards
working (I thought it works only on 2.4 kernels ) ?

What capi drivers do you use ?

Thanks,

regards,

Rob.