[asterisk-dev] What's the best source for architectural understanding?

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Wed Oct 4 19:02:55 MST 2006


On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 07:31:00PM -0500, Eric ManxPower Wieling wrote:
> For SIP, a call comes into Asterisk and is handled by chan_sip.  The 
> call is authenticated against sip.conf.  The context= line for that 
> device is the context the call falls into in extensions.conf.  If the 
> call came in with the destination number provided then Asterisk will 
> send the call to the matching exten => line in extensions.conf.  If no 
> destination number is provided (and ONLY if there is no destination 
> number) then the call is sent to exten => s.

So, one centralized dispatcher looks for both types of off-hooks on all
channels?

Cheers,
-- jra
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