Re: AW: asterisk 1.11 and chan_misdn

On Mon, 27 May 2013 08:46:54 +0200, Hirschmüller,_Sven  
<Sven.Hirschmueller-Xt/TTPqwsUlWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> wrote:

>
> It's still a hassle to get mISDN running in a new environment. (Kernel >  
> 3.x.x)

Why?
Sure, having to get the user space part from git is not user friendly at  
all and really bad if there's an issue in the current version.
But apart from that?

> Meanwhile the guys from Digium add BRI-ISDN support to their dahdi  
> driver and it runs quite well in the latest versions. They also

I don't see the dahdi_hfcs in the official archive.
And as far as I see (2.6.2) you still need a patch to enable NT mode on  
cards without the famous 5th jumper.

> added support for foreign HFC-S cards so you can get foreign cards like  
> ones from openvox running quite easily.
>
> So if you don't need the low level mISDN interfaces as you only use  
> asterisk you can use dahdi and counter a possible heart attack by trying  
> to get mISDN running :)

DAHDI has given me a lot more headaches (and surprise features) so far.

> On the other hand the dahdi drivers are performance pigs as they heavily  
> use IRQs and you can get problems with your hardware because of that.

Oh yes, they have some extremely nasty internals.

On the other hand I think DAHDI has taken the lead on the feature list.  
(ECT being the killer)
But it depends on the specific use case which feature list will be the  
winner.

But as far as installation and configuration goes, mISDN is the winner for  
me.

   Greetings,
     WIMPy