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laforge, 04/21/2022 06:18 PM

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h1. Colocated Hub
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This page exists to collect some planning about the future colocated OCTOI hub, see #5542 
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h2. Physical Setup
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h3. Server (specs)
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High level: 
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* Some 2U machine with capacity to host preferably >=2 full-height PCIe cards (TE820).
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* SRV-IO to map TE820 into a VM for easier debugging of potential DAHDI kernel crashes
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* amount of RAM is not very important, the use case has no high RAM requirements
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* CPU is more critical given all of the the byte-shifting and lots of copying / context switches we have to do for each trunk in the current software architecture
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* storage is also not very critical, other than for log files / monitoring
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Candidates:
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* @laforge has experience with Dell PowerEdge R740 (up to 3 full-height slots)
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* @gruetzkopf has suggested HP DL830p G8 (up to 6 full-height slots)
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* @laforge is checking SuperMicro options with riser cards for PCIe
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h3. DAHDI cards
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@laforge has at least two TE820 that can be used for this purpose
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h3. icE1usb
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We need at leaset one icE1usb as a GPS-disciplined clock master.  
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We can also use that one to compare physical (icE1usb+TE820) setups against DAHDI-trunkdev.
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We could deploy 1-2 more, just in case.
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h3. RAS / dial-up server
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We should install at least one RAS server next to it, for dial-up modem / isdn termination
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* Definitely the Livingston PM3 currently next to the hub. Needs 1xE1 on the Server
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* Likely also a Cisco ASR5400 @laforge has acquired
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h2. Software
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* Like in the current hub at @laforge's basement, we should run the entire yate / osmo-e1d / dahdi-trunkdev inside a KVM with SRV-IO mapping the PCI devices
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