Prosody installation guide: test program timeslots

The test programs must be told which timeslots to use. These must be switched (using the Aculab switch driver) to the desired destination. See Appendix B of the switch driver API guide for full details, but for the first module on a card you can use:

Type of cardAccessible timeslots
S2 (ISA)any MVIP timeslot
P1 (PCI)48:0 .. 49:31
C1 (cPCI)48:0 .. 49:31
BR820:0 .. 21:31

To perform loopback testing, use the 'switch' program in the $(TiNG)/diag directory to connect the output to the input. For example, on a P1 card you would switch 48:0 to 48:0. To connect an external call, for example on timeslot 16:1, connect it both ways, e.g. 48:0 to 16:1 and 16:1 to 48:0. Test programs such as ansrec handle this connection automatically. They only need to be told which timeslot to use. For example, on a P1 card you could specify that 48:0 is to be used and it would make the connections to the incoming call.

NOTE: the MVIP bus numbering uses the name '0:0' to refer to two different timeslots: one input and one output. The H.100 bus uses a different name for each timeslot, so '0:0' only refers to a single timeslot.


This is one of the Prosody test programs .