« Must stink to be him.. | Main | Great Article »

July 13, 2005

Breaktrough

Made a breakthrough on my Asterisk PBX today.

I have been having an issue with the Sendmail functionality. Basically the idea is that when somebody leaves a voicemail, then the owner of the Voicemail box is emailed a copy of the wav file. Asterisk@home worked as expected for a couple of weeks, then stopped for no apparent reason. (I had not changed anything)

After searching the forums, and dinking around with the sendmail configuration, I finally decided to turn the server from Fixed IP to DHCP. I suspected that my lease expired from the original boot up. When I did this , all of the spooled mails went out.

I left it on DHCP for a while, but that was not a long term solution. Unfortunately the router we have does not have the option to assign IP address based on the MAC address. Whenever I set the server up with a fixed IP my email notifications stopped flowing. I have to set a fixed IP, or my phones will not know where to connect.

I have tried several different things to fix this issue. Finally I upgraded the Linksys Wireless router to the latest and greatest firware, and the problem was resolved.

It is always the last thing that you try that fixes a problem.. ;-)

I turned on Quality of Service in the router, giving SIP packets a high priority. This helped our audio quality substantially. I have on Generic FXO card that echos terribly. I am going to replace that with a higher quality card, In the mean time we are using a single line.

Posted by reighley at July 13, 2005 04:33 PM

TechnoratiTags:

Trackback Pings

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://liferoads.reighley.net/mt/mt-tb.cgi/324.

Comments

Post a comment

Thanks for signing in, . Now you can comment. (sign out)

(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)


Remember me?