1. Voicemail, and the voicemail itself will be stored on another box, NFS mounted, or I might use mysql. There will be a little bit of call routing via iax to a separate * box with a channel bank on it.
2. I don't disagree with you, they do throw in a lot, but redhat does have its advantages, IMHO. I've always been able to get things to work quickly with redhat, and there is that whole 24 hour support contract we have with them... 3. Mmm, ok. 4. Does the ati radeon 9000 have a frame buffer? That's the card I was going to use for all the * boxes. Thank you very much. -Joe -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven Critchfield Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 6:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] 2 4-port T1 cards On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 16:05, Joe Antkowiak wrote: > Are there any known issues with putting 2 4-port T1 cards in a single box > and having all ports and all channels in use at the same time? Planning on > 4 of these boxes, dual AMD cpu MB from MSI, 512m, redhat 9, agp video, on > board NICs, serial ata raid. Newbie 101 (Not deragatory) 1. What are you doing with these ports? If you are routing calls from one side of the cards to the other, then you should have no problems with a 1gig P3 or so. But if you are doing more than routing, it will depend on what that something is, and what kind of overhead it is going to impose. 2. RH blows chunks. (Personal opinion) RH is known to make kitchen sink installs when you don't need them, and would be better off without most of the install base. 3. Dual MB won't help much in pure telephony. In pure telephony, you are basically dealing with serial line IO. A T1 is little more than I long distance serial line. 8 T1s is just 11.7megs per second each way, or 23.4 megs in and out. Not too much for a good machine to do. Granted, if you are doing VoIP then you add another set of ins and outs with compression in the middle of it too. This is where the second CPU comes in handy. 4. AGP Video. Make sure not to use the frame buffer, it has been reported that the frame buffer generates large amounts of interupts and will degrade the performance. Here is for discussion as it is parts I don't know real well. Will the serial ATA buy you any flexibilty or lowered CPU load while accessing the disk? Don't take this question as shooting down the SATA, just don't know if there is real benefit in it yet. Also what chipset is the onboard nics? -- Steven Critchfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
