Re: [asterisk-users] Dell Servers

2007-02-05 Thread Remco Barendse
On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Matt wrote: We have several 2900s in production as VoIP servers.. no lockups. On every server I go into the BIOS and: * Disable USB * Disabled uneeded things like Parallel, Serial * Put ETH0 on a seperate IRQ from the Digium card And everything's fine. Dell's do NOT have t

Re: [asterisk-users] Dell Servers

2007-02-05 Thread Matt
We have several 2900s in production as VoIP servers.. no lockups. On every server I go into the BIOS and: * Disable USB * Disabled uneeded things like Parallel, Serial * Put ETH0 on a seperate IRQ from the Digium card And everything's fine. Dell's do NOT have to share IRQs... go into your BIOS

Re: [asterisk-users] Dell Servers

2007-02-03 Thread Christophorus Laube
That depends on your distro. I have tested * with Beronet cards on OpenSuSE 10, Debain Sarge and Ubuntu Edgy. What has to be blacklisted is every remainder of old ISDN stuff and hotplug modules (*php = * pci hot plug). As far as I know these cards are not hotpluggable at all and who wants to hav

Re: [asterisk-users] Dell Servers

2007-02-03 Thread Remco Barendse
On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Gordon Henderson wrote: On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Remco Barendse wrote: Would you be willing to share your blacklist for the kernel modules? Have you considered compiling a custom kernel for your hardware rather than not loading modules? It's something I've always done from d

Re: [asterisk-users] Dell Servers

2007-02-03 Thread Gordon Henderson
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Remco Barendse wrote: Would you be willing to share your blacklist for the kernel modules? Have you considered compiling a custom kernel for your hardware rather than not loading modules? It's something I've always done from day 1 with Linux (some 10 years back now!) That

Re: [asterisk-users] Dell Servers

2007-02-02 Thread Remco Barendse
On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Christophorus Laube wrote: We have a 2850 in a productive environment with a BNE1 performing well (OpenSuSE 10) and a 2950 with BNE1 and BN8S0 also performing OK (on Ubuntu Edgy). You only have to blacklist some hotplug kernel modules and yes, we do have very long pings (1 pi

RE: [asterisk-users] Dell Servers

2007-02-02 Thread Andreas Sikkema
> 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 We're using a couple of Dell 1850's and I couldn't be

RE: [asterisk-users] Dell Servers

2007-02-02 Thread Ahsan Masood
-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Dell Servers Hello, I have installed Asterisk on several of them and there can be issues. Will you be installing a telco interface card on this server?(If so, which one) Will this server have PCI or PCIexpress expansion ports? MATT--- On 2/1

RE: [asterisk-users] Dell Servers

2007-02-02 Thread Ahsan Masood
Dell 2950 doesn't come with Intel network chip. It comes with Broadcom extreme and module is BNX2. We are using these servers and using Gentoo linux. We are experiencing issues when there are 30+ calls enabled for call recording and we assume this is due to new SAS controller. If you not planning

Re: [asterisk-users] Dell Servers

2007-02-01 Thread Paul Hales
We built some systems based on Dell 2950's and they ran fine. We put a TE110P in a Dell 860 last week, and it makes a noise on the outbound part of the call. Not on the inbound, which is really odd. The 860 works perfectly with a TE210P in it though. (This fault has been logged with Digium.) l

RE: [asterisk-users] Dell Servers

2007-02-01 Thread Jeronimo Romero
p.com == -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Florell Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 3:07 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Dell Servers Hello, I have installed Asteri

Re: [asterisk-users] Dell Servers

2007-02-01 Thread Christophorus Laube
We have a 2850 in a productive environment with a BNE1 performing well (OpenSuSE 10) and a 2950 with BNE1 and BN8S0 also performing OK (on Ubuntu Edgy). You only have to blacklist some hotplug kernel modules and yes, we do have very long pings (1 ping per week with a check rate of 10min per SNMP

Re: [asterisk-users] Dell Servers

2007-02-01 Thread Eric Rousse
Hello, Well we're planning either use some PRI lines or IP Trunk, where not sure yet. For the PRI lines we will probably use a Wildcard TE412P, so PCIe For the IP Trunk, not sure yet I don't have a lot of info in that regards. I'm also planning to put an extra server with some cards to connec

Re: [asterisk-users] Dell Servers

2007-02-01 Thread Remco Barendse
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 mother

Re: [asterisk-users] Dell Servers

2007-02-01 Thread Matt Florell
Hello, I have installed Asterisk on several of them and there can be issues. Will you be installing a telco interface card on this server?(If so, which one) Will this server have PCI or PCIexpress expansion ports? MATT--- On 2/1/07, Eric Rousse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I was planning

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Dell Servers

2005-08-04 Thread Joe Greco
> Supermicro's can be nice. Problem is that Supermicro's aren't sold in Canada > and as per our specification is it needs to be a tower based server. Is there another Canada we don't know about? I went over to DirectDial.com (merely the first Canadian computer retailer I could think of, not an e

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Dell Servers

2005-08-03 Thread Peter Svensson
On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Sascha Ferley wrote: > http://www.digium.com/index.php?menu=compatibility > > What servers does one recommend though using ? Our company hates using HP > junk, dell used to be a good choice for most of our stuff. IBM is way > overpriced. Anyone have any suggestions? If you ne

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Dell Servers

2005-08-03 Thread Matt Florell
___ > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Callum McGillivray > Sent: August 2, 2005 9:23 PM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Dell Servers >

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Dell Servers

2005-08-03 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith
On Wednesday 03 August 2005 12:44, Sascha Ferley wrote: > Supermicro's can be nice. Problem is that Supermicro's aren't sold in > Canada and as per our specification is it needs to be a tower based server. ?? I bought my Supermicro systems from NCIX in British Columbia... -A. ___

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Dell Servers

2005-08-03 Thread Andrew Latham
nt: August 2, 2005 9:23 PM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Dell Servers > > > > > Sascha, > > Where did you see the information about the Dell machines that Digium do > not recommend ? > > D

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Dell Servers

2005-08-03 Thread Michael Swan
e a good choice for most of our stuff. IBM is way overpriced. Anyone have any suggestions?   Sascha   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Callum McGillivray Sent: August 2, 2005 9:23 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Aster

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Dell Servers

2005-08-03 Thread Sascha Ferley
th asterisk. S. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Riddell Sent: August 2, 2005 7:34 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Dell Servers Sascha Ferley wrote: > I was wondering if anyone had

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Dell Servers

2005-08-03 Thread Sascha Ferley
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Callum McGillivray Sent: August 2, 2005 9:23 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Dell Servers   Sascha, Where did you see the information about the Dell machines that Digium do not recommend ? Do you

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Dell Servers

2005-08-02 Thread Callum McGillivray
Sascha, Where did you see the information about the Dell machines that Digium do not recommend ? Do you have a link ? Thanks, Callum William Boehlke wrote: 1850s work fine with T1 cards but not with TDM. If you need to use an 1850 use an external gateway.      

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Dell Servers

2005-08-02 Thread Matt Riddell
Sascha Ferley wrote: I was wondering if anyone had any problems with the Dell 1800 series servers, with TDM400 cards? I saw that digium seems to recommend against a lot of the dells. I would recommend Super Micro racks. We're using them with no problems. I haven't tried the dells, although

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Dell Servers

2005-08-02 Thread William Boehlke
1850s work fine with T1 cards but not with TDM. If you need to use an 1850 use an external gateway.       From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sascha FerleySent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 12:56 PMTo: asterisk-users@lists.digium.comSubject: [Asterisk-Users] Dell S