asterisk users - Jun 2004 - Asterisk on 64 bit... and testing e164.org's stuff

works, but there are some issues.

I've had asterisk up and running on a suse 9.0 beta 7 x86_64 for about 
two weeks now.
I used then-current cvs, and the compile went smoothly with only a dozen 
complaints about 64 bit casting of pointer types.

The good news : Latency is effectively non-existent (especially when 
compared to the lame c3 itx box I normally use), and asterisk has not 
crashed once. Even when transcoding 5 calls it barely ticks over 
processorwise... vmail and agi "just work" -

The bad news:

the soundcard in thix box (a tyan?) doesn't work
the kernel on this box has oopsed thrice
A working festival wasn't on the beta  (I note that 9.1 came out 
recently and it  has it)
the ztdummy driver did not compile (thus no meetme for a soft pbx 
without a dialin card)
openh323 did not compile 64 bit
I haven't yet tried plugging in any hw, using it purely "soft"

I have spent the last couple weeks working at a new gig and haven't had 
time to look into these issues.  I plan to take on some of them next 
weekend equipped with the new version of Suse, or perhaps redhat 
(opinions?). Is there an ISDN card known to work well in a 64 bit OS?

Instead of taking on the 64 bit issues I have been having fun 
experimenting with enum and e164.org on this box. I'd be curious if 
anyone out there in asterisk land could spend a few minutes with me 
exchanging calls via e164 to make sure I'm routing calls right.

-- 
mike taht
CTO, PicketWyre Labs
PostCards from The Bleeding Edge http://the-edge.blogspot.com

78068@fwd.pulver.com (forwards to me on asterisk, known, working)
Test 64 bit machine (sorry, no sip, just iax2) guest@iax.taht.net/201 - 
I *think* this rings my extension at this point -
18313355505 (should spit out a IAX2://guest@iax.taht.net/201 connection 
to me via enum - or just dial my land line if not working)

Mike Taht wrote:
> Instead of taking on the 64 bit issues I have been having fun 
> experimenting with enum and e164.org on this box. I'd be curious if 
> anyone out there in asterisk land could spend a few minutes with me 
> exchanging calls via e164 to make sure I'm routing calls right.
I'd like to help but I'm currently pretty preoccupied with a conference 
in Boston, but I usually use +1800 555 8355 to test enum numbers with, 
also helps when testing that it's all working without calling someone 20 
times to find out audio is going one way...

We currently have routes to toll free numbers in about 10 countries and 
the international +800 range...

-- 

Best regards,
  Duane

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