George, We have this config working. Please give me a call (yeah, I'm at the office too) and we can walk through your config together.
-Darren -- Darren Nickerson Senior Sales & Support Engineer iFax Solutions, Inc. www.ifax.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1.215.438.4638 +1.215.243.8335 (fax) ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Pajari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2004 5:51 PM Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Channel Bank Frustrations > I'm trying to get a Carrier Access Corp. Channel Bank I working with a > Digium T100P without success. > > What is stranger is that the status lights on the channel bank and T100P > seem to change almost each time I power cycle the channel bank or reset the > T100P. > > The channel bank has three status lights: T1, Framing, Status. T1 is green, > Status is yellow, and Framing is usually red but sometime green. > > The T100P is sometimes red, sometimes green. > > The zaptel configuration is: > span=1,0,0,esf,b8zs > > The channel bank settings are: > Clock source: On or Off, seems not to make a difference > Framing: ESF > Line Code: B8ZS > CSU: On or Off, seems not to make a difference > > Once I managed to get all three status lights on the channel bank green but > the T100P was red. > > On the few cases the T100P gives a green status, zttool shows the RxB bits > randomly flipping one and off. > > I have tried different T100P cards in different servers so that has been > eliminated as a cause. > > I have made up several T1 loopback cables so I don't think it is a flaky > cable. > > The remaining possibilities are: > a) a bad channel bank (although it passes the self test) > b) a bad zaptel configuration > > After several hours of trying different settings and DIP switches I am > increasingly frustrated in trying to determine the cause of the problem. It > has been especially difficult since power cycling the channel bank can > result in a change to the status lights without any change to the settings > or configuration. > > Any suggestions on what might be causing the problem or what to try next? > We're trying to go live this week and this problem is critical. > > Thanks for any help/suggestions > > g. > > P.S. - What, exactly, is the meaning of the second argument to the zaptel > span parameter ("timing source") and how does it relate to the clock switch > on the channel bank as I have tried all four combinations without obvious > consistent affect? > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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