On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Eric Rousse wrote:
Hi,
I was planning on getting a Dell PowerEdge 2950 for our new Asterisk
configuration.
But while searching for documentation about it and/or reported issues, I
found this:
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+hardware
WARNING - many Dell motherboards use the e1000 gigabit ethernet chipset,
which has been known to cause random locksup - if you plan on using a Dell
server, disable the onboard controller and purchase an addon ethernet card.
Does anyone has real experience ?
I bought a Dell 2850 as a pbx server and it just sucks IMHO
The stupid thing has only 3 pci slots and even with only 3 pci slots Dell
managed to have a shared irq on every slot, 1 for the scsi controller and
one for each nic
The result of this 'nice' piece of work is dreadfull irq hit/miss results
in zttest, it barely meets the minimum requirement and i do get complaints
of dropped calls on my pri
I need to pass some options to the kernel at boot time to improve things,
without extra options the results from zttest were unacceptable
My spare pbx is a lowly Athlon XP 2600 with an Asus A7V8X-X mobo in it and
it's scores with zttest are considerably better (but not full 100% hits)
I know that everybody on the list will now start recommending me to buy
Sangoma hardware but firstly I hate compiling extra modules and it doesn't
make it right that the Dell hardware just sucks
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