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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I would just like to post a huge thanks to Theodore
Baschak for his June 12th post regarding the Shaw
PRI. </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>I fought with this issue
for two days and searched everywhere, and I can't believe rebooting the Shaw CSU
(against the insistance of the Shaw installer) was all it took to get it
running. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'd like to include some background on the specific
issues that I had that were solved by this, as I suspect they affect other
Shaw PRI installations with Asterisk.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I was seeing was that the light on my Digium TE122
card was green, and zttool reported it was OK - but on the Adtran CSU (3rd Gen)
that Shaw provided, the EQ RMT LB light was solid amber. I had assumed
this was a software setting issue on Asterisk, and tried every conceivable
setting there.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In the Asterisk console, I would get a message
every second saying "PRI Error on span 0: We think we're the CPE, but they think
they're the CPE too." - which had me attempt to use 'pri_net' as signalling, but
that would just change the message to say "We think we're the network, but they
think they're the network too". </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>After doing some research, it seems that the Adtran
CSU, once put in "Equipment Remote Loopback" mode - will only come out of that
mode when it is sent a "1-in-3 pattern (100) for five seconds)" by the
equipment. Zaptel/asterisk does not appear to understand how to do this,
and there is no button or switch to bring it out of that mode (nor does it seem
can the Shaw provisioning centre bring it out remotely). I believe the CSU
was left in that mode by the Shaw technician at install. A reboot of the
Adtran CSU solved it though.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This is the configuration that worked for
me:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial># cat /etc/zaptel.conf<BR>span = 1,1,0,esf,b8zs<BR>bchan =
1-23<BR>dchan = 24<BR>loadzone = us<BR>defaultzone = us<BR><BR># cat
/etc/asterisk/zapata.conf<BR>[channels]<BR>group=1<BR>switchtype=national<BR></FONT><FONT
face=Arial>signalling=pri_cpe<BR></FONT><FONT face=Arial>channel =>
1-23<BR>context=incoming</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>[trunkgroups]<BR></DIV></FONT>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Matthew Beaton</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Community Networks</FONT></DIV>
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