>Were those people -- who, unlike me, had done it and had problems -- wrong?
There are more variables than the Digium card itself. Things like bus design, chipset etc all come into play. I've noticed that there is a concerted effort with Asterisk implmentors to often roll out Asterisk in a white box clone with a $129 integrated motherboard in an effort to drive down the cost which (IMO) is foolish. Why would you (not you, but people) spec a DL380G4 for a database server then turn around and use an ECS brand motherboard for a telephony platform - a platform which by definition requires sub-millisecond response time? Tier 1 boxes are *designed* for this type of application and are engineered to conform to spec + safety margin, wheras Taiwan clone boards are usually designed to roughly confirm to spec, and that's all (notable exception: I have used ASUS motherboards for Asterisk installs, and they all work flawlessly) I've said it many times before on the list: It's trivial to make a crappy Asterisk install. Anyone can do it. It's really, really, hard to make a *good* Asterisk install. You need cross-discipline experience, a lot of which is hard to come by in the closed, secretive telephony world. Tip o' the hat to SHSU. I wouldn't touch *that* install with a space tether. _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
