Andrew Kohlsmith (lists) wrote: > If you're continuously restarting Asterisk, there is something wrong > with your setup: hardware, software or both. I have many installs > out there on commodity hardware (either pure-voip or digital (PRI) > only with Polycom handsets) and none of them need to be restarted.
That is good to hear. The more I read on this thread, the more I think I may have just chosen the wrong "commercially available Asterisk". I've thought about just building everything myself, but, as a full time IT guy I simply can't find the time to learn the ins-and-outs of Asterisk. Some day, I hope to! > Now we're not using queues; straight extensions with voicemail, some > paging and followme, a little CTI (click to dial), and a 24h "page > the poor shlub wearing the pager this week" for emergency support. > You know, pretty standard systems; the kind of thing I'd think any > small business would have. > None of these are PoE, have separate switches or special VLANs or > anything like that. Think of what a small 5-50 person office would > have the money for. Exactly my type of setup. Nothing really fancy. > I hear this complaint from time to time, but I've never really sat down > and thought about what could be causing it. Which version(s) are you > running? Whose hardware, what linux distro, are you running FreePBX or > straight-from-sources Asterisk? I'll take you on your word that you're > not trolling. Let's dig in a little. CentOS release 4.4 (Final) Kernel 2.6.9-34.0.2.ELsmp (SMP) Asterisk 1.4.16.2 Dell SC440 w/RAID 1 Digium TE120P The GUI is a commercially available product, to remain un-named at this point. No Trolling... I'm not wanting to "knock" Asterisk. I just want to get feedback from others actually using it in a production environment. I don't know that we have lost any customers over "missed" calls (BUSY signals during reboots), BUT I have lost some street cred from my Bosses! They think I'm an IT Guru... They keep asking why the heck I can't you make that phone system work reliably now that it is "computer based" LOL :( Thanks for the comments Bill _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users