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

Hello all,

I really appreciate the replies I've gotten about this so far 
(especially the support for wanting to run it on Solaris!).

The core issue seems to have been missed, though -- is there any way 
to run a complete Asterisk solution on Solaris 10 (including 
music-on-hold and conferencing)? This probably comes down to a few issues:

- Is ztdummy (a component of Zaptel) *really* required for MoH and 
conferencing support?
- I've heard rumblings about "zaprtc" being a potential
replacement.
Is it a *real* replacement? Will it work on Solaris 10? If not, what will?
- I *know* people have got to be running Asterisk on Solaris 10 (but 
I don't know who they are, unfortunately!). If you happen to be a 
member of that esteemed clique, could you please let me know how you 
got ztdummy working, or what you used as a replacement? I really 
don't see people going without MoH and conferencing in a "real"
setup.

Thanks again!

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

>Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 23:45:01 -0500
>To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com
>From: Alexander Burke <asterisk@alexburke.ca>
>Subject: 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!

On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 06:24:16PM -0500, Alexander Burke wrote:
> I really appreciate the replies I've gotten about this so far 
> (especially the support for wanting to run it on Solaris!).
> The core issue seems to have been missed, though -- is there any way 
> to run a complete Asterisk solution on Solaris 10 (including 
> music-on-hold and conferencing)? This probably comes down to a few issues:
> - Is ztdummy (a component of Zaptel) *really* required for MoH and 
> conferencing support?
> - I've heard rumblings about "zaprtc" being a potential
replacement.
> Is it a *real* replacement? Will it work on Solaris 10? If not, what will?
> - I *know* people have got to be running Asterisk on Solaris 10 (but 
> I don't know who they are, unfortunately!). If you happen to be a 
> member of that esteemed clique, could you please let me know how you 
> got ztdummy working, or what you used as a replacement? I really 
> don't see people going without MoH and conferencing in a
"real" setup.
ztdummy was only used for timing. Linux 2.6 provides this function in
the kernel and I assume Solaris already has timing functions there.

Steve

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> While it doesn't explicity say so, it seems to 
> very strongly imply that either a PCI card or 
> ztdummy are *required* for some Asterisk 
> functionality (namely music-on-hold and 
> conferencing, apparently). Is this actually not the case?
I'd say support for one of these options  should be 
available whenever Asterisk generates _any_ media by 
itself, including conferencing.

IVR functionality and the like become much better when 
ztdummy or another timing source supported by Asterisk is 
available.

-- 
Andreas Sikkema                       BBned NV
Software Engineer                Planeetbaan 4
+31 (0)23 7074342            2132 HZ Hoofddorp

Interesting.  I installed Fedora Core 4 and whenever I load ztdummy I
get stuttering and a "robotized" voice but when I don't modprobe
ztdummy
it works fine.

Bill

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Steve
Kennedy
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 6:53 AM
To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fwd: Asterisk on Solaris 10 (AMD
Opteron,Sun Fire X2100)

On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 06:16:06AM -0500, Alexander Burke wrote:
> Hello, Steve!
> At 03:55 AM 02/21/2006, you wrote:
> >ztdummy was only used for timing. Linux 2.6 provides this function in
> >the kernel and I assume Solaris already has timing functions there.
> Page 36 of Asterisk: The Future Of Telephony 
> (O'Reilly Press) states that you either require a 
> Digium PCI card to provide clocking, or ztdummy 
> if you "lack the PCI hardware required to provide 
> timing". It goes on to mention that a UHCI USB 
> controller was required pre-2.6 but now that 
> there's a 1kHz clocking source in the kernel, 
> ztdummy will attach to that instead, thus 
> eliminating the requirement for the UHCI USB controller.
> While it doesn't explicity say so, it seems to 
> very strongly imply that either a PCI card or 
> ztdummy are *required* for some Asterisk 
> functionality (namely music-on-hold and 
> conferencing, apparently). Is this actually not the case?
OK, that's not what I inferred - but you could be right?

Is there a definative answer on this, or I'll have to go and re-install
a test system ;)


Steve

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