[asterisk-users] better timing source for an asterisk gateway

[Kevin P. Fleming]

On 02/28/2012 09:06 AM, ml asterisk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have to make an asterisk gateway in front of several other asterisk.
> This gateway will essentialy be used for outbound call.
> This gateway will be connected to other asterisk by IAX trunk, outbound
> call will use SIP trunk (voip provider or patton isdn).
> I have a TE220BF available than i can use for dahdi timing source. Is a
> good idea, or this will give me zero benefit for timerfd timing source
> (will host this gateway on debian squeeze or centos 6.2) ?

It is doubtful that using a hardware timing source is going to make any 
appreciable difference over using res_timing_timerfd or res_timing_dahdi 
(with the DAHDI core software timer).

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