[asterisk-dev] Re: How to busy out PRI channels?

[Tony Mountifield]

In article <p06240505c166811e91a3 at loligo.com>,
John Todd <jtodd at loligo.com> wrote:
> At 2:30 PM +0000 2006/10/26, Tony Mountifield wrote:
> >
> >Anyway, that's two replies approving of the feature, but none yet from
> >anyone with any hints about accomplishing it. Perhaps when folks have
> >finished at Astricon....
> 
> Actualy, there has been sidebar discussion here at Astricon (was it 
> in session or in the hall or at dinner?  I have no idea.) about what 
> to do for this.  Mark Vince and I have noted that this is is for some 
> reason on everyone's midn, and possibly with the appropriate bribes 
> or caffeine in the CodeZone it may get done, or at least discussed in 
> more detail.  I would suggest that if anyone on the list who is not 
> at Astricon has any code to contribute that this would be a great 
> time to throw some ingredients in while the chefs are looking at this 
> particular pot.
> 
> The problem set seems to be:
>    - how do you [busy,un-busy] channels out from a "live" system without
>        re-loading zaptel?  Should it be CLI only, or should there also be
>        something that is possible from within the dialplan and/or AMI?
>    - how do you display the status of channels?
>    - how do you distinguish if the other side has busied a channel out?

John, thanks for the reply - good to know the issue is being talked
about over there! I'd love to contribute code, but currently don't know
enough about libpri etc. to come up with any. I'd be interested to hear
the thoughts of someone like Matt Frederickson on this issue.

Cheers
Tony
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