[asterisk-users] Fw: Re: mISDN BRI Asterisk 1.4
Andrew Thomas
andy at datavox.co.uk
Thu Jan 22 05:10:23 CST 2009
Have you got termination set correctly?
I have a B410P working with 2 x NT and 2 x TE ports successfully.
I had to turn the 100ohm termination on on the NT ports (even though I
have them set as PTP in mISDN.conf).
HTH
-->> -----Original Message-----
-->> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-
-->> bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Lee Wilson
-->> Sent: 21 January 2009 15:18
-->> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
-->> Subject: [asterisk-users] Fw: Re: mISDN BRI Asterisk 1.4
-->>
-->>
-->> Its been a few days, I was wondering if anyone else has any ideas
on
-->> how to get this to work?
-->>
-->> If not, could I ask a the direct question as to if anyone here has
(or
-->> knows someone who has) successfully got something like a Cisco
Router
-->> to successfully establish an ISDN data/Internet connection through
the
-->> Asterisk PBX?
-->>
-->> From a telephony perspective it must be possible as our existing
-->> Nortel PBX does it, just don't know if Asterisk can.
-->>
-->> I feel that I've spent too much time that could have been better
spend
-->> on this and am now at the point where I think the boss should just
-->> cough up and get a couple of ISDN BRI lines put in.
-->>
-->> Thanks again for everyones input so far.
-->>
-->> Lee
-->>
-->> --- On Fri, 16/1/09, Lee Wilson <leefm40 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
-->>
-->> > From: Lee Wilson <leefm40 at yahoo.co.uk>
-->> > Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] mISDN BRI Asterisk 1.4
-->> > To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"
-->> <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
-->> > Date: Friday, 16 January, 2009, 10:12 AM
-->> > Hi Francesco,
-->> >
-->> > You were correct. I pulled the cable out before everyone
-->> > got in this morning and it was a cross over. I've now
-->> > connected a proper straight-through ISDN cable (don't
-->> > know what the Nortel was using before) and L1 is now up on
-->> > Asterisk:
-->> >
-->> > BEGIN STACK_LIST:
-->> > * Port 1 Type NT Prot. PTP L2Link DOWN L1Link:UP
-->> > Blocked:0 Debug:1
-->> >
-->> > However I'm now seeing the following message as L2 is
-->> > not coming up:
-->> >
-->> > P[ 1] !!! Could not Get the L2 up after 3 Attemps!!!
-->> >
-->> > I checked that misdn.conf was setup to use PTMP (despite
-->> > was it is saying above):
-->> >
-->> > <mISDNconf>
-->> > <module poll="128" debug="1"
-->> > timer="no">hfcmulti</module>
-->> > <module debug="1"
-->> > options="0">mISDN_dsp</module>
-->> > <devnode user="root"
-->> > group="root"
-->> > mode="644">mISDN</devnode>
-->> > <card type="BN4S0">
-->> > <port mode="nt"
-->> > link="ptmp">1</port>
-->> > <port mode="nt"
-->> > link="ptmp">2</port>
-->> > <port mode="nt"
-->> > link="ptmp">3</port>
-->> > <port mode="nt"
-->> > link="ptmp">4</port>
-->> > </card>
-->> > </mISDNconf>
-->> >
-->> > Also, how can I definately tell it is running in PTMP mode?
-->> >
-->> >
-->> > msisdnportinfo does not distinguish:
-->> > Port 1: NT-mode BRI S/T interface port (for phones)
-->> > -> Interface can be Poin-To-Point/Multipoint.
-->> > --------
-->> > Port 2: NT-mode BRI S/T interface port (for phones)
-->> > -> Interface can be Poin-To-Point/Multipoint.
-->> > --------
-->> >
-->> > And Asterisk says it is running in PTP as well when the
-->> > module is loaded:
-->> > *CLI> module load chan_misdn.so
-->> > mISDN_close: fid(21) isize(131072) inbuf(0xb7b12008)
-->> > irp(0xb7b12008) iend(0xb7b12008)
-->> > == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/misdn.conf': Found
-->> > P[ 0] Got: 1ptp,2ptp from get_ports
-->> > == Registered channel type 'mISDN' (Channel
-->> > driver for mISDN Support (Bri/Pri))
-->> > == Registered application 'misdn_set_opt'
-->> > == Registered application 'misdn_facility'
-->> > == Registered application 'misdn_check_l2l1'
-->> > P[ 0] -- mISDN Channel Driver Registered --
-->> > Loaded chan_misdn.so => (Channel driver for mISDN
-->> > Support (BRI/PRI))
-->> >
-->> > I've got onto the Cisco router and found the BRI
-->> > interface to be configured as below:
-->> >
-->> > interface BRI0
-->> > no ip address
-->> > encapsulation ppp
-->> > dialer pool-member 1
-->> > isdn switch-type basic-net3
-->> > no cdp enable
-->> > ppp authentication chap callin
-->> > end
-->> >
-->> > And the following events are being reported:
-->> >
-->> > Jan 16 10:03:06.099: ISDN BR0: Could not bring up interface
-->> > Jan 16 10:03:06.103: BRI0: wait for isdn carrier timeout,
-->> > call id=0x8004
-->> >
-->> > The router also thinks that Layer 1 is still down:
-->> > Global ISDN Switchtype = basic-net3
-->> > ISDN BRI0 interface
-->> > dsl 0, interface ISDN Switchtype = basic-net3
-->> > Layer 1 Status:
-->> > DEACTIVATED
-->> > Layer 2 Status:
-->> > Layer 2 NOT Activated
-->> > Layer 3 Status:
-->> > 0 Active Layer 3 Call(s)
-->> > Active dsl 0 CCBs = 0
-->> > The Free Channel Mask: 0x80000003
-->> >
-->> > Looks like it may be worth speaking with OpenVox regarding
-->> > exactly how there can is setup, only problem is I'm not
-->> > sure what I should be asking them.
-->> >
-->> > Apologies for this long email.
-->> >
-->> > Regards
-->> >
-->> > Lee
-->> >
-->> > --- On Wed, 14/1/09, Francesco Peeters (linux)
-->> > <francesco at fampeeters.com> wrote:
-->> >
-->> > > Are you using an ISDN cross cable? I don't know
-->> > these
-->> > > cards, but most cards are wired as a DTE type device
-->> > (TE
-->> > > port like a router or phone) and not a DCE type device
-->> > (NT
-->> > > box). So you might have Tx-Tx and Rx-Tx instead of
-->> > Rx-Tx and
-->> > > Tx-Rx... ;-)
-->> > >
-->> > > (Note that ISDN cross cables are definately NOT the
-->> > same as
-->> > > a CAT5E cross cable!)
-->> > >
-->> >
-->> >
-->> >
-->> >
-->> >
-->> >
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