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> I'm trying to add better support to libpri for maintenance
> protocol SERVice and SERVice ACKnowledgement messages.  The
> code is marked in q931.c as being a 'KLUDGE' and should be
> ripe by now for fixing.
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> Things work great on my test machine with a T400 and a loop
> back cable.  B-Channels are able to go in and out of
> service, and the state is stored in chan_zap.c so that
> channels out of service are immediately skipped when
> attempting a call on them (similar to Do Not Disturb.)
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> Problem is, I can't get it to work in the real world.  And
> given that this is a non-ITU message type, I'm not sure if
> it's me or the switch that doesn't want to play nice.  As
> best I can tell, these SERVice messages are defined in ANSI
> T1.607 with a list price of $360 -- no 3 freebie downloads
> like the ITU specs.  Thus, I've scoured various other web
> resources to cobble together the implementation.
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> If I'm correct in my assumptions so far, these NFAS/CCS
> SERVice messages are required for proper operation of backup
> D-Channels, in addition to maintenance of B-Channels.
> Currently, it appears although * supports the use of a
> backup D-Channel, it is not able to initiate a backup
> procedure -- only follow what the far-end switch does.
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> I'm attaching a patch of what I have so far, but what I
> could really, really use from some kind soul is a PRI trace
> of a proper SERV exchange for maintenance on a B-Channel.
> If you want to try the patch, it adds CLI commands:
> "zap service enable|disable|loop channel <chan num>"
> (Very similar to the Cisco IOS Dial Technologies command:
> "isdn service <chan num> state 0|1|2")

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 (0091230) dwaynemh (administrator) - 2008-08-07 18:14
 http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=3450#c91230 
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Revision 136717 of the branches listed below now support persistent storage
of the service state.  This means you can disable a b-channel and your
b-channel will be continue to be out-of-service across Asterisk restarts
and system reboots.

http://svn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/team/group/issue3450
http://svn.digium.com/svn/libpri/team/dhubbard/issue3450

The following CLI commands were stripped out of this branch because we are
getting extremely close to merging into trunk and I wanted to lock down the
changes to the functionality that I've actually confirmed to work in my
environment.

I'm still waiting for some real world feedback on this functionality, so
if anyone is reading this message....PLEASE test my branches and provide
feedback. 

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