[VoIP] Asterisk-SIP Trunk

[windmill]

Lee,

I would love to be able to do that but I don't know enough about Linux. 
I know that the UPSs can shutdown my Windows PCs because I have seen it 
in practice although I don't have any UPS comms set up at all at 
present. On the *boxes all the USB and serial ports are disabled to free 
up interrupts otherwise the X100P cards might not work.

Brian

Lee Spenadel wrote:
> 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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