> > If the software needs a specialcard to keep time then the > > software is broken or poorly designed.
> Don't complain so loudly unless you're willing to contribute the > fixes. Opinions are like assholes, and you know where that's going. > Takes something else entirely to fix a perceived problem. He is correct though; I am willing to put money on the idea that the Tiger320 chip is NOT a stratum 1 time device (or even stratum 3 for that matter) -- Chances are that Digium was trying to tie in their hardware and make money to support * that way, and you can't really fault them for that. There's quite a difference between an uninformed opinion and the opinion of someone who's actually written software and designed hardware that meet more stringent requirements than what is being discussed, do you not think? I agree though -- there is _no_ reason why the USB, RTC or even regular PIT timer can't do this job just as easily... In fact, both USB and RTC options have been created and seem to work just fine for most people. Providing hardware to do this also gives an advantage that * can be ported to multiple platforms with minimal software shuffling, and since drivers would have to be written for the card anyway, you've got your time source with you where ever you go. There are a number of questions that keep coming up that Digium seems unwilling to answer. It'd be nice if they just came right out and said "Guys we need to make money to support * development, this is how we are proposing to do it..." but instead we get closed lips and speculation. It does seem that there are a number of systems out there that have marginally-compliant PCI busses or some other slightly odd aspect to them that make jitter and echo on * worse than other systems. It'd be really nice to get a database of known-bad hardware together. Regards, Andrew _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
