Re: [Asterisk-Users] 3x AVM Fritz!Card PCI for a EuroISDN PBX.
David M. Wilson schrieb: Hi there! I'm currently considering various PBX solutions for our office telephone network, and would very much like to use Asterisk. Currently, my research is incomplete. I have been recommended to use the above cards, but it is unclear from my Googling whether my configuration will work: - 3x Fritz!Card PCI's in one host. - 3x 6 b-channels. - ~20 Budgetone (and some others) handsets. Can anyone answer these questions: - Will the 3 ISDN cards function correctly in one host? - Will running all 3 cards flat out require particularly beefy hardware? - Will the Grandstream phones provide a good equivilant to professional dedicated PBX phones? (assuming a good network) I have read lots about echo problems and so on, is this an issue? Any help in the matter would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance! You can try http://www.quiss.org/caiviar/Two-Fritzcards-HOWTO Thomas ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] 3x AVM Fritz!Card PCI for a EuroISDN PBX.
Thomas Dingermann wrote: David M. Wilson schrieb: Hi there! I'm currently considering various PBX solutions for our office telephone network, and would very much like to use Asterisk. Currently, my research is incomplete. I have been recommended to use the above cards, but it is unclear from my Googling whether my configuration will work: - 3x Fritz!Card PCI's in one host. - 3x 6 b-channels. - ~20 Budgetone (and some others) handsets. Can anyone answer these questions: - Will the 3 ISDN cards function correctly in one host? - Will running all 3 cards flat out require particularly beefy hardware? - Will the Grandstream phones provide a good equivilant to professional dedicated PBX phones? (assuming a good network) I have read lots about echo problems and so on, is this an issue? Any help in the matter would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance! You can try http://www.quiss.org/caiviar/Two-Fritzcards-HOWTO Thomas Better get tw quadbri's from kapejod at http://www.junghanns.net/ and combine them with ISDN phones. that would give you perfect quality. cheers Michael ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] 3x AVM Fritz!Card PCI for a EuroISDN PBX.
Michael Bielicki wrote: Thomas Dingermann wrote: David M. Wilson schrieb: Hi there! I'm currently considering various PBX solutions for our office telephone network, and would very much like to use Asterisk. Currently, my research is incomplete. I have been recommended to use the above cards, but it is unclear from my Googling whether my configuration will work: - 3x Fritz!Card PCI's in one host. - 3x 6 b-channels. - ~20 Budgetone (and some others) handsets. Can anyone answer these questions: - Will the 3 ISDN cards function correctly in one host? - Will running all 3 cards flat out require particularly beefy hardware? - Will the Grandstream phones provide a good equivilant to professional dedicated PBX phones? (assuming a good network) I have read lots about echo problems and so on, is this an issue? Any help in the matter would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance! You can try http://www.quiss.org/caiviar/Two-Fritzcards-HOWTO Thomas Better get tw quadbri's from kapejod at http://www.junghanns.net/ and combine them with ISDN phones. that would give you perfect quality. Kapejod, have you released your cards ? cheers Michael ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -- - Best Regards, Pavel Litvinenko. ICQ: 16224754 sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] 3x AVM Fritz!Card PCI for a EuroISDN PBX.
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 18:15:38 +0100, Peer Oliver schmidt wrote David M. Wilson wrote: Hi there! I'm currently considering various PBX solutions for our office telephone network, and would very much like to use Asterisk. Currently, my research is incomplete. I have been recommended to use the above cards, but it is unclear from my Googling whether my configuration will work: - 3x Fritz!Card PCI's in one host. As far as I know, AVM only allows a single Fritz!Card PCI in a PC. I /think/ there is a patch out there to allow more than one. Search the archives to find out more. I am sure, you will get better results by putting in an active card. Either AVM or EICON. I have /heard/ the EICON cards are preferable because of the on board echo cancellation -- Best regards Peer Oliver Schmidt the internet company I'm using two Fritz!Cards in one box without any problems (yes, a patch was required iirc but I found it quite easily via google... somewhere on isdn4linux.de methinks). It works as a router/nat, iax-pstn gateway, mail server, nfs (/home) and smb file server and php+mysql app server for about a dozen clients. It worked for quite a time on a p2/400 but we're currently moving it to a celeron/1700 as the db is getting bigger. No asterisk related problems whatever, except for dead channels left sometimes (to clear them reliably, we need to shut down * and restart it). My 0.02PLN Grzegorz Nosek ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] 3x AVM Fritz!Card PCI for a EuroISDN PBX.
Hi! - Will the 3 ISDN cards function correctly in one host? We have done this and it works, using a variant of the hack posted on the website. Points to watch out for: - It's not reliable. We've had Asterisk spontaneously refuse to dial out or accept connections on CAPI until the cards are reset. We don't recommend doing this in production. That's valuable information - can you also comment on the operation of just 2 cards? Would that be (more) stable or is that essential the same as running 3? Cheers, Philipp ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
[Asterisk-Users] 3x AVM Fritz!Card PCI for a EuroISDN PBX.
Hi there! I'm currently considering various PBX solutions for our office telephone network, and would very much like to use Asterisk. Currently, my research is incomplete. I have been recommended to use the above cards, but it is unclear from my Googling whether my configuration will work: - 3x Fritz!Card PCI's in one host. - 3x 6 b-channels. - ~20 Budgetone (and some others) handsets. Can anyone answer these questions: - Will the 3 ISDN cards function correctly in one host? - Will running all 3 cards flat out require particularly beefy hardware? - Will the Grandstream phones provide a good equivilant to professional dedicated PBX phones? (assuming a good network) I have read lots about echo problems and so on, is this an issue? Any help in the matter would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance! David. ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] 3x AVM Fritz!Card PCI for a EuroISDN PBX.
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 05:02:57PM +, David M. Wilson wrote: - 3x 6 b-channels. - 6 b-channels. Sorry folks! David. ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] 3x AVM Fritz!Card PCI for a EuroISDN PBX.
David M. Wilson wrote: Hi there! I'm currently considering various PBX solutions for our office telephone network, and would very much like to use Asterisk. Currently, my research is incomplete. I have been recommended to use the above cards, but it is unclear from my Googling whether my configuration will work: - 3x Fritz!Card PCI's in one host. As far as I know, AVM only allows a single Fritz!Card PCI in a PC. I /think/ there is a patch out there to allow more than one. Search the archives to find out more. I am sure, you will get better results by putting in an active card. Either AVM or EICON. I have /heard/ the EICON cards are preferable because of the on board echo cancellation -- Best regards Peer Oliver Schmidt the internet company ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] 3x AVM Fritz!Card PCI for a EuroISDN PBX.
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 06:15:38PM +0100, Peer Oliver schmidt wrote: As far as I know, AVM only allows a single Fritz!Card PCI in a PC. I /think/ there is a patch out there to allow more than one. Search the archives to find out more. Thanks for the quick response. I'm afraid I was unclear in my original statement - Google pointed me in the direction of this list w.r.t. 3x Fritz cards, and a user who had a problem using that setup. I can't find an answer to his help request. I am sure, you will get better results by putting in an active card. Either AVM or EICON. I have /heard/ the EICON cards are preferable because of the on board echo cancellation I was hoping to reduce costs signifantly by using a fast CPU and cheap passive cards, but if that will result in a noticable loss of quality, then I guess active cards it is then. :) Thanks, David. ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] 3x AVM Fritz!Card PCI for a EuroISDN PBX.
David M. Wilson wrote: Hi there! I'm currently considering various PBX solutions for our office telephone network, and would very much like to use Asterisk. Currently, my research is incomplete. I have been recommended to use the above cards, but it is unclear from my Googling whether my configuration will work: - 3x Fritz!Card PCI's in one host. - 3x 6 b-channels. - ~20 Budgetone (and some others) handsets. Can anyone answer these questions: - Will the 3 ISDN cards function correctly in one host? - Will running all 3 cards flat out require particularly beefy hardware? - Will the Grandstream phones provide a good equivilant to professional dedicated PBX phones? (assuming a good network) I have read lots about echo problems and so on, is this an issue? Any help in the matter would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance! The driver from AVM only allows one Firtz card in a PC, there is a hack to run two but I don't know about 3.. Save yourself a lot of time and frustration and get a 4 BRI card from Eicon or AVM ( I believe the Eicon is better becasue it has echo cancellation but a little more expensive than the 4BRI AVM card) especially if its for an office install of that many users.. The GS phones are fine and work well, they have a few quirks but these should be fixed on the next firmware upgrade.. If you are running GS phones then the only codec availible to you is the G.711, using this codec you will not need all that powerful a server.. A 1Ghz and above processor with 256+MB of RAM should be fine.. Later.. ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] 3x AVM Fritz!Card PCI for a EuroISDN PBX.
Hi David, I'm currently considering various PBX solutions for our office telephone network, and would very much like to use Asterisk. Currently, my research is incomplete. I have been recommended to use the above cards, but it is unclear from my Googling whether my configuration will work: - 3x Fritz!Card PCI's in one host. - 3x 6 b-channels. - ~20 Budgetone (and some others) handsets. Can anyone answer these questions: - Will the 3 ISDN cards function correctly in one host? We have done this and it works, using a variant of the hack posted on the website. Points to watch out for: - It's not reliable. We've had Asterisk spontaneously refuse to dial out or accept connections on CAPI until the cards are reset. We don't recommend doing this in production. - You need to be careful with the patch because there are two types of cards, and the patch isn't clever about how it detects them, so either make sure that all your cards are absolutely identical in /proc/pci, or fix the patch. - Will running all 3 cards flat out require particularly beefy hardware? Doesn't seem to. - Will the Grandstream phones provide a good equivilant to professional dedicated PBX phones? (assuming a good network) I have read lots about echo problems and so on, is this an issue? They are cheap and nasty feeling, and not particularly reliable, so I would say no. Cisco 7960 is much better, although more of a pain to get working out of the box, since you need DHCP, TFTP and configuration tools. Cheers, Chris. -- _ __ __ _ / __/ / ,__(_)_ | Chris Wilson -- UNIX Firewall Lead Developer | / (_ ,\/ _/ /_ \ | NetServers.co.uk http://www.netservers.co.uk | \__/_/_/_//_/___/ | 21 Signet Court, Cambridge, UK. 01223 576516 | ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
