[Asterisk-Users] Re: Asterisk-Users Digest, Vol 21, Issue 81

[Aaron Daniel]

We're using 1850's for our asterisk system right now (well, all but two, 
but they'll be upgraded soon).  1U boxes that work like a dream, I think 
the biggest problem I've had with them is mpg123 wouldn't compile since 
they're 64bit, and that was a simple fix.

This is what Digium has to say about the 1850's:
TE411P, TE410P, TE406P and TE405P, TE210P, TE205P

The Dell PowerEdge 1850 has an onboard Intel e1000 Ethernet controller 
that can interfere with the operation of the TE411P, TE410P, TE406P and 
TE405P, TE210P, TE205P cards. The recommended action for this server is to 
disable the onboard Ethernet controller and use a PCI-based solution.

Basically the problems are IRQ based if I'm reading right, but we haven't 
had a single problem with IRQ usage on the box, and we're using both of 
the ethernet links on the server.

Aaron

On Fri, 14 Apr 2006, Martin wrote:

> I too had a server room fry and need to replace h/w.
> So what specific Dell servers did/do you deploy?
> Where is the link w/Digium/s Dell caveats?
> I'm using the Digium  TDM400 card w/*
>
>> Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 19:19:13 -0500 (CDT)
>> From: Aaron Daniel <amdtech at shsu.edu>
>> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Digium cards, so disappointing !
>> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>> 	<asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
>> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0604131916030.26388 at systems.shsu.edu>
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>> 
>> *shrugs* Ya win some ya lose some.  We've spent about 10 grand plus on
>> Digium cards and have been pretty satisfied with ours :) Faxes have been
>> working great for over 6 months and the cards work wonderfully in our Dell
>> servers.  They just need more documentation on the different configuration
>> options you can pass on load... I think the only problems we've really had
>> are configuration related, or bad hardware on our part, oh, and a server
>> room fry that took out more than just the Asterisk servers :-P
>> 
>> Aaron
>> 
>> On Fri, 14 Apr 2006, Tony ROBIN wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> I am so fed up with Digium cards. My company first owned a TE410P,
>>> I installed it in a Dell server and "enjoyed" its instability (we
>>> bought it months before Digium warned about the incompatibility
>>> issues). Then we switched to a TE411P for the hardware echo
>>> cancellation. Now we want to receive fax (< 20/day) on it and
>>> guess what ? Since April 2006 (again a few months after we bought
>>> our brand new card), "officially, fax communications is not
>>> supported with Digium cards" ( http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+fax 
>>> ).
>>> Of course, I should have guessed that it is far too much to ask
>>> to a $2495 card ! Is the "fax" extension in Asterisk just there
>>> to push us to the competing products ?
>>> 
>>> We hesitated to buy another Digium card after the problems with
>>> TE410P, but I told myself it was nice to support Asterisk by
>>> buying some Digium cards. Now Digium make us regret our buys and
>>> a disappointed customer is a lost customer forever... Too sad...
>> -- 
>> Aaron Daniel
>> Computer Systems Technician
>> Sam Houston State University
>> amdtech at shsu.edu
>> (936) 294-4198
>> 
>> 
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Aaron Daniel
Computer Systems Technician
Sam Houston State University
amdtech at shsu.edu
(936) 294-4198