I have an installation next week. This asterisk box has a PRI card (for the inbound PRI) and a TDM400P with 3 FXS cards in it (for 2 fax machines and a credit card machine) What do you have to do to get * to see the TDM400P? It sees the PRI card and associated channels but I can't get the TDM400P to work - no matter what mix of channel numbers I use ztcfg doesn't like it. Thanks for the help. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20050408/aa5fdfe3/attachment.htm
A word of caution, we ran that same setup for a while and then bagged the TDM400P in favor of 2 Sipura SPA2000 ATAs. The TDM400P kept locking up and the SPA2000 never has. No problems getting fax from * to the SPA2000 via g.711 over a FastE LAN. I am not sure if the TDM400P has gotten any better since then (last November). The PRI card has been solid. ________________________________ From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Jason Brown Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 9:01 AM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [Asterisk-Users] PRI card and TDM400P in same box I have an installation next week. This asterisk box has a PRI card (for the inbound PRI) and a TDM400P with 3 FXS cards in it (for 2 fax machines and a credit card machine) What do you have to do to get * to see the TDM400P? It sees the PRI card and associated channels but I can't get the TDM400P to work - no matter what mix of channel numbers I use ztcfg doesn't like it. Thanks for the help. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20050408/8ad3f184/attachment.htm
>What do you have to do to get * to see the TDM400P? It sees the PRI cardand associated channels>but I can't get the TDM400P to work - no matter what mix of channel numbersI use ztcfg doesn't>like it.My config with a Digium PRI card and a TDM400P, just finished yesterday & working fine: zaptel.conf: span=1,2,0,esf,b8zs <--Ususally Timing parameter is set to 1 here, but I am using 2 bchan=1-23 dchan=24 fxoks=25-28 <---I have 4 FXS cards and I want them as ZAP/25-28 zapata.conf: [channels] language=en context=from-pstn switchtype=national pridialplan=unknown <--this is an imporant parameter; it's best to set it as "unknown" this tripped me up before signalling=pri_cpe usecallerid=yes echocancel=yes group=0 channel=1-23 <--Note the absence of Channel 24, the D-channel. Used for signalling, so leave it alone. context=from-internal <--I use AMP so I want the users cordless phones etc to work in the same context as the SIP phones signalling=fxo_ks <--- Note FXO parameter here; don't forget FXS cards use FXO signalling & vice-versa usecallerid=yes group=0 <--Same group for AMP use channel=25-28 /etc/rc.d/rc.local: <--I use rc.local instead of starting it as a service, this lets me specify the load order. Personal preference. modprobe wct1xxp modprobe wcfxs modprobe zaptel ztcfg -vv <--I want the console to display what's going on. /usr/sbin/ampportal start <--optionally, you could do "su asterisk /usr/sbin/safe_asterisk & " if you are not using AMP Last note: cron a reboot every night otherwise your TDM400 will crap out on you after a week or so. Much speculation on the list as to why. Reboot fixes it. HTH
> A word of caution, we ran that same setup for a while and then bagged > the TDM400P in favor of 2 Sipura SPA2000 ATAs. The TDM400P kept locking > up and the SPA2000 never has. No problems getting fax from * to the > SPA2000 via g.711 over a FastE LAN. > > I am not sure if the TDM400P has gotten any better since then (last > November). The PRI card has been solid.We have the same setup (PRI on a TE410P and TDM400 in the same box). We got our first TDM400 card in October 2004, and it sucked. It was from a bad batch of cards. After some tech support with Digium, we got another TDM400P, and it has been working well. The TE410P is working well for the most part. There have been a few instances of our PRI just going bye bye, and the card will only register a red alarm. I haven't been able to determine properly if these are the fault of the card/driver, or the fault of our provider. I am suspecting the latter because I don't really do anything beyond restarts, and power cycles, and the problem suddenly fixes itself. The hardware combination seems to work well for us, though. Quality is fine. There aren't any interrupt issues that I've seen.