On 11/3/05, Chris Bagnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would suggest using a pair of 4-port cards. The interrupts > > alone from 5 PCI cards would kill most boxes. There is also > > an octo-card, but I have no personal experience of that. > > Hmm... the price is something of an obstacle - given that single BRI cards > can be had for sub-£20, justifying £425 on a 4-port card onto which there'd > need to be another single BRI anyway might be a challenge. > > Are there any other options worth considering here? How about a board with 2 > PCI buses (e.g. one PCI, one PCI-X) ? > The only other option I can think of, and again I have not tested it personally, as I prefer the perceived reliability of a 4-port hardware solution, is the Florz patch to bristuff: http://zaphfc.florz.dyndns.org/ I cannot get to the usual URL, but via google: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=site%3A%3Azaphfc.florz.dyndns.org&btnG=Search you can view the cached page.
This allows you to use interrupts from a single card as the trigger for all cards in the system, reducing the resultant load to a manageable level. Best of luck. Steve _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
