Setting up a PBX for Israel<->US communication

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 09:04:08PM +1100, Amos Shapira wrote:
> 2009/2/14 Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir at cohens.org.il>:
> > On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 08:05:06AM +1100, Amos Shapira wrote:
> >> 2009/2/14 Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir at cohens.org.il>:
> >> > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 01:54:53PM +1100, Amos Shapira wrote:
> >> >> I saw somewhere that the Xen hosts provided by VPSLink already have
> >> >> 1000HTz clocks on them, saving a kernel recompilation.
> >> >
> >> > But is it actually 1000Hz?
> >>
> >> How can you tell without access to the kernel config? The CPU MHz is 2200.
> >
> > The experiment below was for sampling the clock Asterisk would get
> 
> OK, I didn't realize that. Will try it later then.
> 
> >
> > Anyway, just did that in a Xen host I have (using Debian Lenny)
> >
> > The Xen kernel does not have CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS set, I could not
> > find a working RTC driver, and HZ is set to 250 .
> 
> It doesn't necessarily mean that it's the same on my Xen host. As far
> as I follow it's a per-kernel-compilation setting.
> 
> >
> >> >> > 1. Debian :-) (As I package Asterisk for it)
> >> >>
> >> >> I used Debian for over 10 years but now I got used to CentOS (simply
> >> >> because it's so much easier to find hosts which support it for my work
> >> >> needs).
> >> >
> >> > I recently looked for unmanaged hosts and there Debian was generally as
> >> > common as Centos. Most managed hosts used cPanel and alike that I simply
> >> > can't stand.
> >>
> >> I can't stand cPanel either. With Debian hosting at least on one place
> >> (I think Spry, the parent of VPSLink) I got stuck with an old Debian
> >> on a Virtuozo VPS which I can't upgrade without just installing the
> >> machine from scratch (I know Debian supports in-place upgrades, but
> >> the virtual host setup won't allow this).
> >
> > This is why I go for unmanaged. The box from which I'm writing this got
> > upgraded from Etch to Lenny. Generally each Debian system supports the
> > kernel of the previous distribution.
> 
> What do you call "unmanaged"? It's a Virtuozo-style host, so the
> kernel is dictated by the hosting env.
> 
> The VPSLink service I have is Xen so although they control the kernel
> I can pick one of few and probably switch to a new one.
> 
> >> It was 1.6rc1
> >
> > That's 1.6.1-rc1 . That is: a release candidate for the branch 1.6.1 .
> > A while before that 1.6.0.5 was released, which is the fifth maintinance
> > release of branch 1.6.0 .
> 
> OK, I missed that.
> 
> >
> >> about three days ago when I looked . I'd rather stick to
> >> something which reached .23 for now.
> >>
> >> >
> >> > 1.4 is still being maintained, but not sure for how long.
> >>
> >> 1.6 was rc1 just this week.
> >>
> >> Are you saying that once I decide to go with Asterisk I also have to
> >> keep close chase of their latest release in order to have it supported
> >> (i.e. bug and security fixes)?
> >
> > The closest thing I found for describing it is:
> > http://www.asterisk.org/node/48539
> >
> > At the moment 1.4 is still supported, but I'm not sure I'd use it for
> > new installations.
> 
> Thanks for the pointer. It looks like the relevant sentence was cut in
> the middle:
> 
> "With Asterisk 1.4, once Asterisk 1.4.N is released, Asterisk 1.4.X is
> no longer supported, where X
> http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/asterisk/asterisk-1.6.0.tar.gz"
> ?

Since then 1.4.23 has been published, and I saw a number of fixes
scheduled for 1.4.24 .

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