asterisk users - Feb 2005 - chan_capi or chan_mISDN vs bristuff

Hi list!

I'm currently using a HFC-S card for my ISDN BRI line with bristuff. The 
instability is driving me crazy however.

I'm having continuous problems where inbound calls will not work after 
some time of operation (the number then appears as not in use to the 
caller) or also outbound calls do not work.

The solution is to unload the modules, stop asterisk, re-load the modules 
and start asterisk again. The machine (Athlon64) already hung several 
times when unloading the modules (I guess the same bug/problem is is 
reported for SMP boxes).

This problem occurs every single day and giving me really grey hairs.

If I ditch the HFC-S card and replace it with another card that will work 
with mISDN or chan_capi will this solve my problems?

Thanks for any hints / tips!
Remco

Remco Barende wrote:
> I'm currently using a HFC-S card for my ISDN BRI line with bristuff.
The
> instability is driving me crazy however.
[..]

I have three different locations with HFC cards. I had the same 
stability problems on ALL of the installations.

Since RC5 plus the florz patch *ALL* of the stability problems have 
vanished. No more seconds of silence, no more unavailability messages. 
It just works now. I won't touch the installations for a long time :-)
> If I ditch the HFC-S card and replace it with another card that will 
> work with mISDN or chan_capi will this solve my problems?
I have good results with an AVM C4 card using the CAPI drivers. I 
started out with an old ISA AVM B1 card which had echo problems, which 
got fixed with some later chan_capi driver releases.
-- 
Best regards

Peer Oliver Schmidt

On 14:10, Fri 11 Feb 05, Remco Barende wrote:
> Hi list!
> 
> I'm currently using a HFC-S card for my ISDN BRI line with bristuff.
The
> instability is driving me crazy however.
> 
> I'm having continuous problems where inbound calls will not work after 
> some time of operation (the number then appears as not in use to the 
> caller) or also outbound calls do not work.
> 
> The solution is to unload the modules, stop asterisk, re-load the modules 
> and start asterisk again. The machine (Athlon64) already hung several 
> times when unloading the modules (I guess the same bug/problem is is 
> reported for SMP boxes).
> 
> This problem occurs every single day and giving me really grey hairs.
> 
> If I ditch the HFC-S card and replace it with another card that will work 
> with mISDN or chan_capi will this solve my problems?
> 
> Thanks for any hints / tips!
> Remco
Hi,

We had the same trouble. It made me trash the HFC-S cards
and now we are running on 2 Fritz! cards on the default
Debian asterisk install. Even the chan_capi is included in
Debian, and it works great. Dont test the i4l drivers tho,
they will give you the same trouble as the zaphfc driver.
For the first time in 3 months we now have our * box up and
running without any issues for more than a day.
So yes, from my point of view, installing chan_capi will
solve your issues as it solved mine.

Michiel