[Asterisk-Users] Is asterisk that unstable ????

[Rich Adamson]

> > > I'm not seeing these problem with X101P, nor does any of my (not so
> > > many) clients. And all that's boils down to is that: a. I'm lucky and b.
> > > I've have helped my luck by using only one card per machine, choosing a
> > > good MB and making sure the card don't share IRQ with anything.
> > >
> > > But the point still remains - any software or hardware that needs to be
> > > rebooted every 3 days to work is broken and should not be used. Period.
> > >
> > > If you use such software or hardware you should find out what's wrong
> > > and fix it or switch to something else.
> > 
> > I think you've really nailed it on the head with the above statement.
> > The problem is that everyone keeps harping on shared interrupts, repeating
> > statements that others have made, etc, but no one is actually making any
> > attempt to identify the root problem. And, primarily because this seems
> > to be a very technical issue with digium cards only, where the majority
> > of developers and those with the skills necessary to identify the root
> > cause don't use digium cards.
> > 
> > These systems (motherboards and all) don't have a problem with 99.9% of
> > other vendor's cards and drivers, but yet the * resolution constantly
> > boils
> > down to things like swapping motherboards instead of identifying what the
> > issue really is in terms of certain digium cards.
> 
> I have never once had an issue with a card from Digium.  The real issue is
> some people seem to think it's OK to use a 20 dollar motherboard and shove a
> T1 card in the thing and expect it to play nice.  Come on guys I see this
> all the time... Not all hardware is "good" hardware that plays nice with
> other hardware.

The only issue I have with that is there are several people with digium
T1 and TDM cards in their systems, and its always the TDM that goes out
to lunch; not the T1. No doubt there are less then desirable mobos 
around (and probably lots of them), but that doesn't explain why stability
of the TDM's very different from a T100P (both with Intel 537 chips).