[asterisk-users] Echo and static on PRI with errors

[Tom O'Connor]

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Tom O'Connor <tom at twinhelix.org> wrote:

>
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> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com>wrote:
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>> On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 04:15:13PM +0100, Tom O'Connor wrote:
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>> > I have tried all suggestions given.  It just happens that none of them
>> have
>> > been much use.  I'm very constrained by time on this project, less than
>> 11
>> > days before i leave the company, so i'd like to have it in a workable
>> > state.  Buying a better server, although it would probably work, would
>> > inevitably cost more money than they're willing to spend.
>> > You might notice that the OpenVox cards they bought are the cheapest on
>> the
>> > market? Coincidence.. no.
>>
>> Cheap? yes. Cheapest? Almost. Have you contacted their support?
>>
>>
>> (I'm completely unafiliated with them etc. etc.)
>
> I tried, I got passed around from person to person until i'd heard the
> script at least 4 times, so I gave up.  Might try again tomorrow.
> I'm currently testing the same card in a different server, with a Tyan
> Intel chipset board, as opposed to a HP / AMD chipset.   I'm somewhat more
> hopeful about this.  I was told that newer servers have some proprietary PCI
> bus chips, which are optimised to deal with RAID cards and suchlike, which
> can be problematic when handing IRQ-heavy cards such as these.
>
> I think this is actually interesting, because the current Asterisk server
> is actually a Dell Optiplex desktop with a Pentium 150 in it.  Can't get
> much more basic, but it works pretty well.  (the only reason we're
> attempting an upgrade, is because the old asterisk 1.0 can't support
> features that the management want to implement, and the physical box is
> taking up too much space in the already cramped server room!)
>
> *Resolved*
I ditched the HP server in favour of the Tyan mobo'd server.  Everything
works perfectly.

Thanks to anyone who offered suggestions, they were most useful!

Tom

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Tom O'Connor

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