asterisk users - Dec 2004 - Fw: [digium.com #12961] T100P as bandwidth

Even though they make the cards and advertise that they support data modes,
digium won't support data mode on the $500 card they sold to me, so I must
turn to the list.

Has anyone configured a T100P to use a T1 strictly as bandwidth? Is there a
HOWTO somewhere? Wiki has nothing I could find. I've got plently of public
IPs I can assign to it but don't know how.

Thanks,
Matthew

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthew A. Nicholson via RT" <support@digium.com>
To: <mboehm@cytelcom.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 10:38 AM
Subject: [digium.com #12961] T100P as bandwidth

> Yes the hardware, and our drivers suppport both voice and data modes,
> but because of the nature of the configuration we do not support it.
> Configuring one of our T1 cards for data mode often requires a kernel
> recompile, and extensive network device configuration.  Here at Digium
> our speciality is telephony not networking, this is why we do not
> support the data mode of our hardware.
>
> > [mboehm@cytelcom.com - Wed Dec 22 17:16:29 2004]:
> >
> > I dont mean to sound like a jerk but it says quite clearly on your
website
> > (http://www.digium.com/index.php?menu=wildcard_t100p) that this card
does
> > both Voice and Data. Why would you guys tell me that the card supports
> data
> > but not support data config yourself? They are your cards right?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Matthew
> >
>
> -- 
> Matthew A. Nicholson
> Digium

On December 23, 2004 10:37 am, Matthew Boehm wrote:
> Even though they make the cards and advertise that they support data modes,
> digium won't support data mode on the $500 card they sold to me, so I
must
> turn to the list.
If Digium won't support it return the card and get a Sangoma A101u, it's
approximately the same price and they've been doing HDLC/data T1s for damn 
near a decade.

I am a fan of Digium but I am quickly growing tired of the lack of 
responsiveness from them on their hardware.  Software wise I have *zero* 
complaints but the story is quite different when it comes to hardware 
support.  :-(

-A.

At 10:37 AM 12/23/04, you wrote:
>Even though they make the cards and advertise that they support data modes,
>digium won't support data mode on the $500 card they sold to me, so I
must
>turn to the list.
>
>Has anyone configured a T100P to use a T1 strictly as bandwidth? Is there a
>HOWTO somewhere? Wiki has nothing I could find. I've got plently of
public
>IPs I can assign to it but don't know how.
>
>Thanks,
>Matthew

I've gone round and round with them on this.

 From what I understand, the card will only work with a pri type t1 not
a data line unless you have a device that will emulate that configuration.
(same with the sangoma card by the way) only sangoma will tell you that.

If you are thinking of a return on this card, They will tell you the loopback
works so the card is ok, no return.

At 10:43 AM 12/23/04, you wrote:
>On December 23, 2004 10:37 am, Matthew Boehm wrote:
> > Even though they make the cards and advertise that they support data
modes,
> > digium won't support data mode on the $500 card they sold to me,
so I must
> > turn to the list.
>
>If Digium won't support it return the card and get a Sangoma A101u,
it's
>approximately the same price and they've been doing HDLC/data T1s for
damn
>near a decade.
>
>I am a fan of Digium but I am quickly growing tired of the lack of
>responsiveness from them on their hardware.  Software wise I have *zero*
>complaints but the story is quite different when it comes to hardware
>support.  :-(
>
>-A.

I spoke with a fellow, (can't remember his name, but had a british accent, 
there
are only about 10 folks working there) at sangoma, and he specifically said 
the
sangoma card will only work with a pri t1 (24channel isdn) not with a data 
line.

regards
greg

> Has anyone configured a T100P to use a T1 strictly as bandwidth? Is there a
> HOWTO somewhere? Wiki has nothing I could find. I've got plently of
public
> IPs I can assign to it but don't know how.
Matthew,

I fought with this for quite a while, too.  I feel your pain.  There
is a wiki page that gives pretty good info:

http://voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+data+configuration

The biggest issue that I had was building the right version of the
kernel.  I have done this a few times now, and my recommendation would
be Fedora Core 2 (2.6.8) kernel rebuilt with HDLC.  Just so you, since
you are talking data only, if you are setting up a separate box as a
T1 router, you don't need to install asterisk at all.  You only need
zaptel for data mode.  Let me know if you run into any more trouble. 
I would be happy to send you the .config for my kernel or answer any
questions that come up.

Hope this helps,
Patrick

I tried to configure a TE110XP using HDLC (mainly to see if it worked) I
called the guys at Digium because HDLC support is not natively compiled,
they told me that HDLC was not covered in the free support provided with the
card, I had to rebuildl the kernel but as I had not that much time available
to play with the Cisco swith which was the E1 connection I had to end the
test there, however there is some info in:

http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk%20Data%20Configuration

I also read some of the posts in the lists like
http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/2004-May/047704.html

http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-dev/2003-May/000545.html

hope this helps...

bye,
M.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthew Boehm" <mboehm@cytelcom.com>
To: <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 12:37 PM
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Fw: [digium.com #12961] T100P as bandwidth

> Even though they make the cards and advertise that they support data
modes,
> digium won't support data mode on the $500 card they sold to me, so I
must
> turn to the list.
>
> Has anyone configured a T100P to use a T1 strictly as bandwidth? Is there
a
> HOWTO somewhere? Wiki has nothing I could find. I've got plently of
public
> IPs I can assign to it but don't know how.
>
> Thanks,
> Matthew
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Matthew A. Nicholson via RT" <support@digium.com>
> To: <mboehm@cytelcom.com>
> Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 10:38 AM
> Subject: [digium.com #12961] T100P as bandwidth
>
>
> > Yes the hardware, and our drivers suppport both voice and data modes,
> > but because of the nature of the configuration we do not support it.
> > Configuring one of our T1 cards for data mode often requires a kernel
> > recompile, and extensive network device configuration.  Here at Digium
> > our speciality is telephony not networking, this is why we do not
> > support the data mode of our hardware.
> >
> > > [mboehm@cytelcom.com - Wed Dec 22 17:16:29 2004]:
> > >
> > > I dont mean to sound like a jerk but it says quite clearly on
your
> website
> > > (http://www.digium.com/index.php?menu=wildcard_t100p) that this
card
> does
> > > both Voice and Data. Why would you guys tell me that the card
supports
> > data
> > > but not support data config yourself? They are your cards right?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Matthew
> > >
> >
> > -- 
> > Matthew A. Nicholson
> > Digium
>
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