[VoIP] Asterisk-SIP Trunk

[Lee Spenadel]

Brian,

Apparently you have bad PC Karma.  Perhaps your * boxes reside on top of an
ancient PBX burial ground...

Seriously, why not image your hard drive so that when disaster strikes you
can make a copy and slap it back in to a different machine.  Also, I would
install the apcupsd on your Linux/ *box?  This way when the reserve power of
the UPS dips below a certain level it will send a shutdown command to the
PC.  You won't have to run around shutting down the machines manually and
they will be shutdown  gracefully.

Lee

-----Original Message-----
From: voip-bounces at ckts.info [mailto:voip-bounces at ckts.info] On Behalf Of
windmill
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 9:51 PM
To: Voice Over IP Tandem for Analog Switches
Subject: Re: [VoIP] Asterisk-SIP Trunk

I'm still not sure why but I have lost four *boxes in the last year for 
one reason or another. Something has become corrupted on the hard drives 
and I'm fairly certain that the almost daily power outages a few months 
ago had a great deal to do with it, that was before I had UPSs, they 
will only carry the load for 15 or 20 minutes but it's enough for most 
outages. Having said that there was a power fault yesterday which took 
out my village and about 20 others around Lincoln yesterday at 0813 and 
it took Central Electricity Networks 20 minutes to restore the supply by 
which time I had manually switched off all my telephone and computer 
equipment. I'll be shopping for more UPS kit in the January sales and 
another PC or two if I can't get my old *boxes running again, I think 
one has developed a motherboard fault which prevents it from reading the 
hard drive.

Nothing seems to go smoothly these days, I have been trying to get ahead 
and delve deeper into Asterisk and Linux but things keep getting in the 
way, so much so that I tend to describe myself as 'on permanent interrupt' !

Brian

Lee Spenadel wrote:
> I can tell you that I have had no major problems rebuilding my * PBX on
> Centos 4.5 and Asterisk 1.4.13.  It's been rock solid, though the Shared
> Line Appearance is feature still eludes me :(
>
> Lee
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: voip-bounces at ckts.info [mailto:voip-bounces at ckts.info] On Behalf Of
> windmill
> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 10:26 AM
> To: Voice Over IP Tandem for Analog Switches
> Subject: Re: [VoIP] Asterisk-SIP Trunk
>
> Ah yes FWD can be quite unreliable going down for hours at the weekend. 
> For backup I have the FWD communicator on my desktop but generally both 
> IAX and SIP are out together.
>
> I use Zoiper but also have Xlite and Express Talk with all three running 
> from a single desktop.  I prefer real phones but  multiple softphones on 
> a desktop are very handy for testing a dialplan from a single point. I 
> guess I'll be doing some of that over the next few days now that I've 
> had to rush my experimental *pbx6 into service and then I'll be looking 
> to rebuild/update my failed *pbx2 possibly giving Fedora 8 a try as I 
> got it on the front of a magazine last week.
>
> Brian
>
> Lee Spenadel wrote:
>   
>> I was having trouble with FWD running under iax - I don't think they were
>> supporting it well at the time, so I went the sip route.  I also use the
>> X-lite soft phone which seems to work well too.
>>
>> Lee
>>     
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