[asterisk-users] PRI cards, Digium vs. Sangoma

[Andres]

Tzafrir Cohen wrote:

>On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:54:14AM -0600, Octavio Ruiz wrote:
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>>On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 9:49 AM, Doug Lytle <support at drdos.info> wrote:
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>>> I have, on many occasions, had kernel
>>> panics when trying to shut down wanrouter.  I don't have this 'fear'
>>> with Digium cards.
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>>I never have had those issues if you don't execute zaptel init.d
>>script, because it tries to  unmod all zaptel dependant modules
>>including wanrouter which need to be unmoded with wanrouter script. (A
>>matter of order in the unload process).  Perhaps this tip helps you
>>avoiding that fear. This makes an auto-reboot after a kernel panic
>>occurs.
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>Removing all the modules on shutdown is not really needed. 
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>Many people seem to prefer it for some strange reason.
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>In addition, what you describe here means a specific init.d script's
>"stop" action needs to run after that of another. There are a number of
>ways to order that. In most distributions it is done by explicit
>ordering. In some it is done by dependencies.
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Right, this Kernel panic issue was a surprise to me as well.   I even 
complained to Sangoma.  In order to avoid it at customer sites, we edit 
the /etc/init.d/zaptel script and in the "stop" section we put in 
'service wanrouter stop' before anything gets unloaded.

Andres
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