Hi All!
Okay, let me understand this. No offense intended. I've struggled for about a month with an Asterisk system, seeking to establish at least the minimal functionality of the PBX we wanted to retire (Nortel SL1). My objective was to try and use Asterisk as a replacement/backup telephone switch.
Although no one I've spoken with has said as much, it appears (based on my nearly constant efforts and the reems of downloaded code I've gone through) that the Asterisk application lack's the one capability that a large segment of the telephone market (CLEC's, as in my case, but virtually all service providers, etc...) require.
Apparently, Asterisk doesn't really work like a traditional pbx in that you really can't (for example) select a line (say from a Norstar using a T1 connected to a Digium T410p) go off hook and get dialtone.
Nor (and I understand the security issues of a DISA environment) does it appear that users can readily dial into an Asterisk system, get dialtone, and dial a call.
I've reviewed, massaged, monkeyed with app_disa.c, and while it is a well done and serviceable application, it lacks the flexibility necessary to adequately address real world uses.
Anyway, before I trash the project entirely and sell the equipment, I wanted to make sure that I really inderstood that Asterisk isn't (at present) capable of volume call switching in a DISA application.
[moved to asterisk-users, as it is more on-topic there]
I would disagree with your summary.
Asterisk does not work well in an environment where you're connecting two lines together without dialing anything, though I can't say that I've tried this:
exten => 1234,1,Dial(Zap/1-2/w)
Where Zap 1-2 was a non-PRI T1 channel that had "dialtone" on it. Perhaps that would work. But that method would be foolish and somewhat crippled in functionality.
But, to your argument, you certainly can create dialplan rules that just connect one line to another. If you have given the description above to people who said that it could not be done, then I suspect you have talked to people who have not done it and who were only marginally clued in as to how Asterisk works.
JT _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
