<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Brian, <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I hope this helps, it is slightly different from what you have setup. Here is what I used to connect my asterisk server to our Norstar Meridian. The Norstar T1 was setup as pri_cpe with the 24th channel as D. Check out this webpage for making a T1 crossover cable :</DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/crossover+T1+cable">http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/crossover+T1+cable</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>You should also try making/obtaining a T1 loopback adapter and test both cards.</DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.adtran.com/adtranpx/Doc/0/FMPI9MBKGJBH39S8038BE81ID8/CU-2abf1b83844b11d78ff20c045003.html">http://www.adtran.com/adtranpx/Doc/0/FMPI9MBKGJBH39S8038BE81ID8/CU-2abf1b83844b11d78ff20c045003.html</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Just curious, which cards are you using?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>On zapata.conf below in the norstar section, I set my timing source to be 0. This is because I am getting timing from the first span. If you are only connecting the two machines together and neither one has other T1's going to a telco. Then just set one of them as primary (1) and the other as do not use (0).</DIV><DIV>span=(spannum),(timing),(LBO),(framing),(coding)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Zaptel.conf</DIV><DIV>--------------</DIV><DIV>loadzone=us</DIV><DIV>defaultzone=us</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>#PRI to TimeWarner</DIV><DIV>span=1,1,0,esf,b8zs</DIV><DIV>bchan=1-23</DIV><DIV>dchan=24</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>#PRI to Norstar Meridian</DIV><DIV>span=2,0,0,esf,b8zs</DIV><DIV>bchan=25-47</DIV><DIV>dchan=48</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>#TDM800 Card</DIV><DIV>fxoks=49-52</DIV><DIV>fxsks=53-56</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Zaptel.conf</DIV><DIV>--------------</DIV><DIV>[channels]</DIV><DIV>;Time Warner T1 (SPAN 1)</DIV><DIV>context=tw-pri-in</DIV><DIV>group=2</DIV><DIV>;Echo Cancel turns on the Octastic Hardware Canceller on the card</DIV><DIV>echocancel=yes</DIV><DIV>; Tell Asterisk to reset the channels every two hours</DIV><DIV>resetinterval = 7200</DIV><DIV>; Relax DTMF</DIV><DIV>relaxdtmf=yes</DIV><DIV>rxgain=0.0</DIV><DIV>txgain=0.0</DIV><DIV>signalling = pri_cpe</DIV><DIV>switchtype = national</DIV><DIV>channel => 1-23</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>;Norstar T1 (SPAN 2)</DIV><DIV>context=norstar</DIV><DIV>group=3</DIV><DIV>signalling = pri_net</DIV><DIV>channel => 25-47</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Forrest Beck</DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:jonforrest.beck@gmail.com">jonforrest.beck@gmail.com</A></DIV><DIV>www.shift8.biz</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Sep 21, 2007, at 9:31 AM, Brian Alexander wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BR><DIV><SPAN class="gmail_quote">On 9/20/07, <B class="gmail_sendername">Jared Smith</B> <<A href="mailto:jsmith@digium.com">jsmith@digium.com</A>> wrote:</SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I'd look at your wiring, as an HDLC error like that is usually an<BR>indication of some type of a problem at the physical layer.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR>I tried two other cables this morning with the same results... <BR><BR>While I was swapping cables around I unloaded asterisk and the zaptel modules. One thing I noticed once everything was hooked up and restarted is that Machine2 shows a red alarm but Machine1 shows both spans as clear of alarms... Otherwise everything looks the same as yesterday. <BR><BR>Have any of you connected two asterisk machines by t1 crossover using pri_net/pri_cpe signaling? 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