asterisk users - Feb 2006 - Asterisk on Solaris 10 (AMD Opteron, Sun Fire X2100)

Hello, world!

I'm considering running Asterisk 1.2.4 on Solaris 10 on a Sun Fire 
X2100 server or two (Opteron CPU, nForce 4 chipset), and apparently 
this works. I've read that the Zaptel package won't work on anything 
other than Linux, since it's intended to hook into the Linux kernel 
in the form of a kernel module. This concerns me, since I've read 
that ztdummy, the timing-source component of Zaptel, is required for 
the music-on-hold and conferencing functions of Asterisk to function.

So, with this in mind, is there any way to run a complete Asterisk 
solution on Solaris 10 (including music-on-hold and conferencing)? If so, how?

Thanks in advance!

--
Alexander Burke, A+, CCNA
Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Hey Alex,

Please forgive the question, but what is the rationale behind using Solaris
over Linux as an asterisk hosting platform? 

Cheers,

Mark




-----Original Message-----
From: Alexander Burke [mailto:asterisk@alexburke.ca] 
Sent: Monday, 20 February 2006 3:45 PM
To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk on Solaris 10 (AMD Opteron,Sun Fire
X2100)

Hello, world!

I'm considering running Asterisk 1.2.4 on Solaris 10 on a Sun Fire 
X2100 server or two (Opteron CPU, nForce 4 chipset), and apparently 
this works. I've read that the Zaptel package won't work on anything 
other than Linux, since it's intended to hook into the Linux kernel 
in the form of a kernel module. This concerns me, since I've read 
that ztdummy, the timing-source component of Zaptel, is required for 
the music-on-hold and conferencing functions of Asterisk to function.

So, with this in mind, is there any way to run a complete Asterisk 
solution on Solaris 10 (including music-on-hold and conferencing)? If so,
how?

Thanks in advance!

--
Alexander Burke, A+, CCNA
Kingston, Ontario, Canada



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Hello, Mark!

At 06:33 AM 02/20/2006, you wrote:
 >Please forgive the question, but what is the rationale behind using Solaris
 >over Linux as an asterisk hosting platform?

Because of a few reasons, actually:

(1) The remote hardware management options available for the X2100 
work better (or only, I'm not sure which) under Solaris, and they 
seem to *really* kick ass. Plus, being Sun-engineered, the X2100 
should keep working until it's completely obsolete, and then some.

(2) I know someone who knows Solaris inside-out and backwards, 
blindfolded, while hung upside-down, and codes Bourne shell and C in 
his sleep; this is vaguely reminiscent of www.chucknorrisfacts.com. 
I'm quite sure this will come in handy when (not if) something 
breaks, giving him the opportunity to make some money and giving me 
the opportunity to reduce my downtime. :)

(3) I'd like to learn Solaris, and being SysV-based like Linux, it 
shouldn't be too much of a stretch.

--
Alexander Burke, A+, CCNA
Kingston, Ontario, Canada