[VoIP] Asterisk-SIP Trunk

Sun Dec 23 11:25:04 CST 2007

Haha! Again it's all quite foreign to me at present, ideally I suppose 
I'll have to make the time to determine what is absolutely necessary and 
then take the time to learn how to use it. I don't print because 1) I 
don't know how and 2) I have the parallel port disabled to free 
interrupts for the X100P cards.

Mark Rudholm wrote:
> CUPS is Common Unix Printing System, apcupsd is the daemon for APC UPSes.
> They're not related to each other.
>
> If you don't print, you can safely stop cups.
>
> -Mark
>
> windmill wrote:
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>> Lee,
>>
>> I don't have a Linux Desktop on my *boxes but I have seen cups loading 
>> at start up, might that be the same thing? My APC RS500 came with 
>> Windows software, my other UPSs are all Belkin and I have never yet 
>> checked what software comes with them, I'll have to look into this a 
>> little more closely. At the moment I use my UPSs to iron out the surges 
>> or carry the loads in the majority of outages which generally are around 
>> 30 seconds or less. I was asleep a few weeks ago when I heard one UPS 
>> beeping, the Windows PC on the APC UPS had shutdown but two *boxes and a 
>> second PC as well as my router and network switches were all still alive 
>> after a 20 minute outage which I thought was pretty good. The house ELCB 
>> had tripped presumably due to a large surge and I was able to reset it 
>> as soon as I was aware of it but I don't supposde an outage that long 
>> did the batteries in my UPSs any good at all.
>>
>> Brian
>>
>> Lee Spenadel wrote:
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>>> Brian,
>>>
>>> I'm no guru myself, but here's the link to the i386 version of the apcups
>>> daemon for Linux.  It's an RPM which means you double-click it from the
>>> Linux desktop and it will automatically install.  I recently installed it
>>> and it's working fine:
>>>
>>> http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=54413&use_mirror=int
>>> ernap&filename=apcupsd-3.14.2-1.el4.i386.rpm&68540459
>>>
>>> Lee
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: voip-bounces at ckts.info [mailto:voip-bounces at ckts.info] On Behalf Of
>>> windmill
>>> Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 9:37 AM
>>> To: Voice Over IP Tandem for Analog Switches
>>> Subject: Re: [VoIP] Asterisk-SIP Trunk
>>>
>>> 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:
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>>>     
>>>       
>>>> Brian,
>>>>
>>>> Apparently you have bad PC Karma.  Perhaps your * boxes reside on top of
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>>> an
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>>>> 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
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>>> of
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>>>> 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'
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>>>>         
>>> !
>>>   
>>>     
>>>       
>>>> Brian
>>>>
>>>> Lee Spenadel wrote:
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>>>>> 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:
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>>>>>> I was having trouble with FWD running under iax - I don't think they
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>>> were
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>>>>>> 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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