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PostPosted: Thu Sep 24, 2015 5:08 pm    Post subject: [asterisk-users] Xorcom T1 to PRI Reply with quote

Hi,

I have a client that has a 24 channel voice T1 that I have been using
e&m signalling over for a number of years. The local telco finally got
an ISDN switch and wants to move them to PRI. I didn't see this as a
big problem - I've done a few others on this particular Caribbean island
without issues, but this would be the first time with a Xorcom unit
involved.

We tried to do it tonight and failed. I suspect there is an issue at
their central office where they patched the line away from an old
dms-100 and to the new ISDN switch - the tech said he couldn't see
anything at the line layer, though I showed no alarms. Regardless,
something odd happened that I am hoping for some advice on. We reverted
to the T1 and will try again next week.

The odd bit is this - lsdahdi showed all 24 channels as "T1" instead of
"PRI". The output of lsdahdi at another site where I had already done
this conversion (which uses a Sangoma card) looks like this:

root@astsouth:/etc/dahdi# lsdahdi
### Span 1: WPT1/0 "wanpipe1 card 0" (MASTER) ESF/B8ZS
1 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
2 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
3 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
4 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
5 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
6 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
7 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
8 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
9 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
10 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
11 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
12 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
13 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
14 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
15 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
16 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
17 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
18 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
19 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
20 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
21 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
22 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
23 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
24 PRI Hardware-assisted HDLC (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC -
INACTIVE)

Bah, the scrollback has already erased the output from the box in
question, but essentially it showed the same as above with "T1" in the
second column for all channels instead of "PRI".

They both had identical system.conf, which looks like this:

loadzone=us
defaultzone=us
span=1,1,0,esf,b8zs
bchan=1-23
echocanceller=mg2,1-23
hardhdlc=24

In fact the *only* things I changed from the old system.conf tonight was
swapping "e&m=1-24" for "bchan=1-23" and adding the "hardhdlc=24". The
old (now functioning) system.conf looks like this:

# Span 1: XBUS-00/XPD-00 "Xorcom XPD [usb:X1067719].1: T1" (MASTER)
B8ZS/ESF RED
loadzone = us
defaultzone = us
span=1,1,0,esf,b8zs
e&m=1-24
echocanceller=mg2,1-24

So what about system.conf would cause lsdahdi to show "T1" instead of
"PRI" in column two? Just trying to head off any additional problems
once they get their patching sorted out.

Thanks,

j

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 24, 2015 8:30 pm    Post subject: [asterisk-users] Xorcom T1 to PRI Reply with quote

On 2015-09-24 17:08, Jeff LaCoursiere wrote:
Quote:
Hi,

I have a client that has a 24 channel voice T1 that I have been using
e&m signalling over for a number of years. The local telco finally
got an ISDN switch and wants to move them to PRI. I didn't see this
as a big problem - I've done a few others on this particular Caribbean
island without issues, but this would be the first time with a Xorcom
unit involved.

We tried to do it tonight and failed. I suspect there is an issue at
their central office where they patched the line away from an old
dms-100 and to the new ISDN switch - the tech said he couldn't see
anything at the line layer, though I showed no alarms. Regardless,
something odd happened that I am hoping for some advice on. We
reverted to the T1 and will try again next week.

The odd bit is this - lsdahdi showed all 24 channels as "T1" instead
of "PRI". The output of lsdahdi at another site where I had already
done this conversion (which uses a Sangoma card) looks like this:

root@astsouth:/etc/dahdi# lsdahdi
### Span 1: WPT1/0 "wanpipe1 card 0" (MASTER) ESF/B8ZS
1 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
2 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
3 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
4 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
5 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
6 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
7 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
8 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
9 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
10 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
11 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
12 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
13 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
14 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
15 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
16 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
17 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
18 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
19 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
20 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
21 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
22 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
23 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
24 PRI Hardware-assisted HDLC (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC -
INACTIVE)

Bah, the scrollback has already erased the output from the box in
question, but essentially it showed the same as above with "T1" in the
second column for all channels instead of "PRI".

They both had identical system.conf, which looks like this:

loadzone=us
defaultzone=us
span=1,1,0,esf,b8zs
bchan=1-23
echocanceller=mg2,1-23
hardhdlc=24

In fact the *only* things I changed from the old system.conf tonight
was swapping "e&m=1-24" for "bchan=1-23" and adding the "hardhdlc=24".
The old (now functioning) system.conf looks like this:

# Span 1: XBUS-00/XPD-00 "Xorcom XPD [usb:X1067719].1: T1" (MASTER)
B8ZS/ESF RED
loadzone = us
defaultzone = us
span=1,1,0,esf,b8zs
e&m=1-24
echocanceller=mg2,1-24

So what about system.conf would cause lsdahdi to show "T1" instead of
"PRI" in column two? Just trying to head off any additional problems
once they get their patching sorted out.


The issue is probably with the wanpipe configuration and not with DAHDI
or Asterisk. Run the wanpipe_cfg script again and make sure you change
all necessary settings from E&M to ISDN PRI.

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 24, 2015 9:07 pm    Post subject: [asterisk-users] Xorcom T1 to PRI Reply with quote

[snip]
Quote:
Quote:

So what about system.conf would cause lsdahdi to show "T1" instead of
"PRI" in column two? Just trying to head off any additional problems
once they get their patching sorted out.


The issue is probably with the wanpipe configuration and not with
DAHDI or Asterisk. Run the wanpipe_cfg script again and make sure you
change all necessary settings from E&M to ISDN PRI.


The site with the Sangoma (wanpipe) card is working as expected as a
PRI. The site that I couldn't switch tonight uses a Xorcom box - the
only one I have worked on. Is there also something about Xorcom config
that needs to change to make it realize it is a PRI and not a T1? I
don't recall anything like that in the installation, but that was some
time ago.

Thanks,

j


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PostPosted: Wed Sep 30, 2015 7:48 am    Post subject: [asterisk-users] Xorcom T1 to PRI Reply with quote

Hi,

This seems to be an issue of terminology,

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 05:08:24PM -0500, Jeff LaCoursiere wrote:
Quote:

Hi,

I have a client that has a 24 channel voice T1 that I have been using e&m
signalling over for a number of years. The local telco finally got an ISDN
switch and wants to move them to PRI. I didn't see this as a big problem -
I've done a few others on this particular Caribbean island without issues,
but this would be the first time with a Xorcom unit involved.

We tried to do it tonight and failed. I suspect there is an issue at their
central office where they patched the line away from an old dms-100 and to
the new ISDN switch - the tech said he couldn't see anything at the line
layer, though I showed no alarms. Regardless, something odd happened that I
am hoping for some advice on. We reverted to the T1 and will try again next
week.

The odd bit is this - lsdahdi showed all 24 channels as "T1" instead of
"PRI". The output of lsdahdi at another site where I had already done this
conversion (which uses a Sangoma card) looks like this:

root@astsouth:/etc/dahdi# lsdahdi
### Span 1: WPT1/0 "wanpipe1 card 0" (MASTER) ESF/B8ZS
1 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
2 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
3 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
4 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
5 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
6 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
7 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
8 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
9 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
10 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
11 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
12 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
13 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
14 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
15 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
16 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
17 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
18 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
19 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
20 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
21 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
22 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
23 PRI Clear (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC - INACTIVE)
24 PRI Hardware-assisted HDLC (In use) (EC: WANPIPE_HWEC -
INACTIVE)

Bah, the scrollback has already erased the output from the box in question,
but essentially it showed the same as above with "T1" in the second column
for all channels instead of "PRI".

Right. For Sangoma cards, lsdahdi can't tell if the port is E1 or T1 and
thus calls it "PRI". Note that "PRI" here is a poor name that refers to
the port type itself and not to the signalling in it (which don't have
to be ISDN).

Suggestions? Patches?

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 30, 2015 10:38 am    Post subject: [asterisk-users] Xorcom T1 to PRI Reply with quote

On 09/30/2015 07:47 AM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
Quote:
[snip]
Right. For Sangoma cards, lsdahdi can't tell if the port is E1 or T1 and
thus calls it "PRI". Note that "PRI" here is a poor name that refers to
the port type itself and not to the signalling in it (which don't have
to be ISDN).

Suggestions? Patches?


Ah, well that explains it, and I don't need to worry that I have missed
some config. Might I suggest that lsdahdi show "E1/T1" if the actual
type cannot be determined due to hardware limitations?

Cheers,

j

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