[Freeswitch-users] Troubles with FreeSWITCH and Sangoma A104

Fri Dec 5 08:07:39 PST 2008

Evgeniy,

I will need some time to digest all of this. I have an a104 but I  
don't have a solaris system for testing. I will report back as soon as  
I can.

-MC

On Dec 5, 2008, at 6:53 AM, Evgeniy Zolotov <zolotov at altron.ua> wrote:

>  Greetings!
>
> Question about possibility of the use FreeSWITCH for work with T1/E1
> streams under Sun Solaris 10 a bit clears up (Solaris 11 is in  
> condition
> of alpha-version and not suitable for the industrial use). But answers
> carry more negative sense.
>
> Start of T1/E1 under Sun Solaris has 2 stages: a) start of wanpipe's
> interface; b) make FreeSWITCH for Sun Solaris.
>
>
> a) For Linux Sangoma recommends
> (http://wiki.sangoma.com/wanpipe-freeswitch-install) installation of  
> new
> interface wanpipe-3.3.14.tgz, which has beta-status and placed at
> ftp://ftp.sangoma.com/linux/current_wanpipe.
>
> This installation and tests were successful.
>
> In this release (2007 y.) by Sangoma was added TDM API - native
> interface for FreeSwitch (YATE) — which is absent in all previous
> releases of WANPIPE. In the Linux release 3.3.14 this variant was  
> named
> as «TDM API», in older releases - «TDM Voice».
>
> In this case FreeSWITCH works very good with E1/T1 cards
> A-101/102/104/108 without installation in zaptel system, and spans in
> configuration files of FreeSWITCH declared as [wanpipe#].
>
> But for Sun Solaris we found only
> drverftp://ftp.sangoma.com/Solaris/Beta/SVwanpipe-i386-5.10.pkgbeta,
> which dated 2007:
>
>> NAME=sangoma.com Wanpipe Driver
>
>> VERSION=1.1.0,REV=2007-07-16,
>
> Packet Svwanpipe-i386-5.10.pkg uses Svzaptel-i386-5.10.pkg, which  
> wasn't
> developed by Sangoma, but by little free
> communityhttp://www.solarisvoip.com/, source codes of this packet is
> herehttps://svn.sunlabs.com/svn/solaris-asterisk/zaptel-solaris/trunk/
>
> The analysis of source codes shows that this project develops very
> slowly (there are no updates for about year), has very limited
> functionality and supports ( unlike original zaptel ) very limited  
> list
> of cards ( only one ;) - Digium Wildcard TE110P T1/PRI).
>
> Svwanpipe-i386-5.10.pkg supports only 64-bit Sun Solaris (on CD, which
> we get with Sangoma's cards, presents 32-bit driver and PDF document
> about installation under Sun Solaris — but it dated 2001 — 2002 yy 
> ).
>
> At first we have checked up installation with TDM Voice + zaptel (like
> for Asterisk) under Linux. We configured PRI spans as [zt] ... - such
> installation works good and we could do calls :
>
>
>> originate openzap/1/A/20000 &sleep(3)
>
>
>      * evidently that call retranslates from span 1 to span 2,
>        connected with cross-cable, and goes to extension 20000.
>
>
>
> b) About making FreeSwitch:
>
> Under Sun Solaris 10 with GCC makes FreeSWITCH core and most modules,
> except openzapand some others, because Sun Solaris 10 has GCC 3.4,
> but ./configure for openzap requires compatibility with ANSII 99.
>
> We have checked 3 different methods of makinf FreeSWITCH :
>
>
> 1. set up GCC 4.0.2 from CSW-repositaries (and all reguired for GCC
> *.pkg);
>
> 2. set up SunStudio 12 and do make cc/CC;
>
> 3.cross-compile FreeSwitch for Sun Solaris under Linux with CC- 
> options.
>
>
> In testing we used assembly SunStudio as 32-bit application (64-bit
> comes to the end with mistakes of assembly of some libraries, it is
> possible to correct for it easily, but we did not begin to specify  
> it).
>
>
> For testing cards A-104 we have repeated the same installation and
> configuring as under Linux (wanpipe TDM Voice + zaptel) on 4 different
> 64-bit servers under Sun Solaris 10:
>
>
>      * on 3 servers (2 of them manufactured by SUN) executed
>        successfully : # wanrouter start
>
>
>
> 4 wanrouter# interfaces was created; leds on spans, connected with
> cross-cable, becomes GREEN, i.e. synchronization T1/E1 presents (no
> alarms).
>
> On these servers FreeSWITCH correctly makes:
>
>
>> load mod_openzap
>
>
>      * but when we make :
>
>
>
>> originate openzap/1/A/20000 &sleep(3)
>
>
> - for 2 connected with crosss-cable spans (1 & 2) FreeSWITCH transmits
> PRI message (chan 1/31), but chan 2/31 doesn't receive this message
> (unlike under Linux) and call breaks after timeout.
>
> On 4-th server wanpipe doesn't even starts by mistake some IOCTL (i.e.
> at a command for device). Three «working» servers is on AMD Opteron  
> Dual
> Core 2214(F), fourth is on ntel Xeon 3210.
>
> So, we supposes Svwanpipe-i386-5.10.pkg or Svzaptel-i386-5.10.pkg from
> Sangoma checked up a little and on some one processor and doesn't  
> heave
> up even on beta, as they are declared, at the best on alpha
>
>
> What's the reason of error???
>
>      * wanpipe doesn't work under Solaris?
>
>      * wrong working signalling with zaptel? (but same configuration
>        works good under Linux)
>
>      * wrong working of FreeSWITCH, which was built correctly, but
>        their work was violated?
>      *
>      *
> Thanks, Evgeniy.
>
>
>
>
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