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 motherboards use the e1000 gigabit ethernet chipset, which has been known to cause random locksup - if you plan on using a Dell server, disable the onboard controller and purchase an addon ethernet card. Does anyone has real experience ? Thanks, -- Eric Rousse System Administrator 514.380.2992 450.655.1001 1.888.641.5800 Telmatik inc. 204 Montarville, suite 250 Boucherville, QC, Canada J4B 6S2 www.telmatik.com
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 <eric.rousse@telmatik.com> 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 motherboards use the e1000 gigabit ethernet chipset, > which has been known to cause random locksup - if you plan on using a > Dell server, disable the onboard controller and purchase an addon > ethernet card. > > Does anyone has real experience ? > > Thanks, > > -- > Eric Rousse > System Administrator > 514.380.2992 > 450.655.1001 > 1.888.641.5800 > > Telmatik inc. > 204 Montarville, suite 250 > Boucherville, QC, Canada > J4B 6S2 > > www.telmatik.com > > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >
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 motherboards use the e1000 gigabit ethernet chipset, > which has been known to cause random locksup - if you plan on using a Dell > server, disable the onboard controller and purchase an addon ethernet card. > > Does anyone has real experience ?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 The result of this 'nice' piece of work is dreadfull irq hit/miss results in zttest, it barely meets the minimum requirement and i do get complaints of dropped calls on my pri I need to pass some options to the kernel at boot time to improve things, without extra options the results from zttest were unacceptable My spare pbx is a lowly Athlon XP 2600 with an Asus A7V8X-X mobo in it and it's scores with zttest are considerably better (but not full 100% hits) I know that everybody on the list will now start recommending me to buy Sangoma hardware but firstly I hate compiling extra modules and it doesn't make it right that the Dell hardware just sucks
We have the 2950. It came with only 2pcix ports. And if you need to power an fxs card, you need to route wires around. It wasn't easy to work with. =====================Jeronimo Romero EUS Networks Email: jromero@euscorp.com Cell: 917-332-7238 Office: 212-624-5943 Web: www.euscorp.com ===================== -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] 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 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 <eric.rousse@telmatik.com> 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 motherboards use the e1000 gigabit ethernetchipset,> which has been known to cause random locksup - if you plan on using a > Dell server, disable the onboard controller and purchase an addon > ethernet card. > > Does anyone has real experience ? > > Thanks, > > -- > Eric Rousse > System Administrator > 514.380.2992 > 450.655.1001 > 1.888.641.5800 > > Telmatik inc. > 204 Montarville, suite 250 > Boucherville, QC, Canada > J4B 6S2 > > www.telmatik.com > > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >_______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
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.) later, PaulH On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 14:57 -0500, 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 motherboards use the e1000 gigabit ethernet chipset, > which has been known to cause random locksup - if you plan on using a > Dell server, disable the onboard controller and purchase an addon > ethernet card. > > Does anyone has real experience ? > > Thanks, >
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 to use the servers for call recording then you should be ok. Ahsan -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Eric Rousse Sent: 01 February 2007 19:57 To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: [asterisk-users] Dell Servers 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 motherboards use the e1000 gigabit ethernet chipset, which has been known to cause random locksup - if you plan on using a Dell server, disable the onboard controller and purchase an addon ethernet card. Does anyone has real experience ? Thanks, -- Eric Rousse System Administrator 514.380.2992 450.655.1001 1.888.641.5800 Telmatik inc. 204 Montarville, suite 250 Boucherville, QC, Canada J4B 6S2 www.telmatik.com _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________
It comes with PCI express by default, but you can ask dell to provide you the PCI raiser cards instead of PCI express. Ahsan -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Matt Florell Sent: 01 February 2007 20:07 To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-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 2/1/07, Eric Rousse <eric.rousse@telmatik.com> 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 motherboards use the e1000 gigabit ethernetchipset,> which has been known to cause random locksup - if you plan on using a > Dell server, disable the onboard controller and purchase an addon > ethernet card. > > Does anyone has real experience ? > > Thanks, > > -- > Eric Rousse > System Administrator > 514.380.2992 > 450.655.1001 > 1.888.641.5800 > > Telmatik inc. > 204 Montarville, suite 250 > Boucherville, QC, Canada > J4B 6S2 > > www.telmatik.com > > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >_______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________
>>>>> "ER" == Eric Rousse <eric.rousse@telmatik.com> writes:ER> Hi, I was planning on getting a Dell PowerEdge 2950 for our new ER> Asterisk configuration. But while searching for documentation ER> about it and/or reported issues, I found this: ER> http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+hardware WARNING - ER> many Dell motherboards use the e1000 gigabit ethernet chipset, ER> which has been known to cause random locksup - if you plan on ER> using a Dell server, disable the onboard controller and purchase ER> an addon ethernet card. The e1000 ethernet chipset is basically the best you can get for Linux today. The lockup problem is more likely because Digium cards (and others) have issues with IRQ sharing. Maybe one day the telephony card vendors will wake up and realise that PCI IRQ sharing is perfectly well defined since PCI 1.0 and that the only problems with it are due to bugs in their drivers or their cards. /Benny
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 and change them. On 2/1/07, Eric Rousse <eric.rousse@telmatik.com> 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 motherboards use the e1000 gigabit ethernet chipset, > which has been known to cause random locksup - if you plan on using a > Dell server, disable the onboard controller and purchase an addon > ethernet card. > > Does anyone has real experience ? > > Thanks, > > -- > Eric Rousse > System Administrator > 514.380.2992 > 450.655.1001 > 1.888.641.5800 > > Telmatik inc. > 204 Montarville, suite 250 > Boucherville, QC, Canada > J4B 6S2 > > www.telmatik.com > > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20070205/e99bd7e8/attachment-0001.htm