On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: > On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 02:39:48PM +0100, Gavin Hamill wrote: > > On Friday 03 June 2005 14:28, Nardis Dome wrote: > > > --- "Brett, Gary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Is the Eicon that much better ? > > > > > > sorry, i have only experience with Eicon... maybe > > > someone else is able to give a feedback... > > > > Aside from paying for a recognised brand name, with Eicon you get on-board > > DSPs and firmware, as well as software to make the card appear as a series > > of /dev/tty devices (and/ or CAPI) under Linux. > > With kernel 2.6 you only get ISDN tty devices through the capidrv > module, no more analog modem login support with the obsoleted diva2i4l > module.
The 'obsolete' driver diva2i4l is not in the kernel 2.6.x by default, but the driver exist and can be used. > > We use an Eicon Diva Server 4BRI for our fax server because of the TTY > > interface for Hylafax - the DSPs themselves do all the fax negotiation / > > compression and it works extremely well. > > It works, but when ISDN channels are busy faxing, asterisk has no way to > know which outgoing channel is free: users get a congestion when trying > to call out (unless you program some channel testing logic/loop inside > your dialplan). This is a major bummer in production. > > > However, we're also running * on that machine via CAPI, and the board > > gives us the flexibility to share 8 channels between * and Hylafax > > really easily :) > > There is no sharing, they contend for the channels, even thought they > both use the capi layer. Go figure. This problem is always when using different applications on CAPI. So using Asterisk for 'all' would be a good idea. Unless I find a better way, I plan to implement a checking of 'free b-channel' on dialout inside chan_capi. So if there is another application using a channel, chan_capi would temporarily mark this interface used and try another interface in that group. > My experience with both cards is that the Diva is a waste of money. It's > better to go with the Junghanns card and do faxing from inside asterisk, > which works very well in the latest versions. Even faxsend? Faxreceive works with Diva Server as well (latest changes on sourceforge chan_capi). Armin _______________________________________________ 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
