[asterisk-users] SIP trunk with > 250 lines

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Danny Nicholas wrote:
> Okay - I'm not shooting from the hip here.  The driver in question is a
> Intel E1000 on a Poweredge 1650.  If you visit the Digium site and do other
> googling, you will see that there is a specific issue with asterisk and this
> hardware/driver combination.  I'm not really a fan of Dell, but I'm not
> dissing the whole line either.  I've probably spent 1000+ hours over the
> last 6 months compiling and re-compiling things for Asterisk, so think what
> you will.

This is the second time you've posted this today, but it's not correct.
There is no problem with *Asterisk* and these NICs, in fact it's highly
unlikely that Asterisk could ever have a problem with any NIC, since it
is a userspace application.

What you are referring to is an incompatibility with many E1000-based
NICs and *some* Digium telephony interface cards (not all, and I don't
know if other manufacturers cards are affected).

Please be very specific when making statements like this on mailing
lists, forums, wikis, etc. Comments such as yours tend to become
'gospel' and get repeated, causing people to have incorrect assumptions
and then become 'common knowledge', which is very hard to overcome :-)

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