[asterisk-dev] Arguments for the Dial command when using DUNDi switch

Vadim Lebedev vadim at mbdsys.com
Wed May 13 08:37:36 CDT 2009


dimas at dataart.com wrote:
> Hello.
> I have already raised this question on IRC channel and I was told that I should use DUNDILOOKUP in dialplan in order to somehow change arguments for the Dial command which DUNDi switch issues. [ Also I was told that I have very strange setup etc :=) ]
>
> But now Im looking at the Asterisk 1.6.1 and I see that there is support for DUNDIDIALARGS variable which allows passing options to Dial command. Which makes me think that Im not the only person who needs features like that!
>
> So I would like to raise my point again. Sometimes you may want to do more than just change Dial options so the solution with DUNDIDIALARGS is still somewhat limited. For example it does not let you export some IAXVARs to pass them to the remote node with the call.
> And Im back to my original proposal:
> 1.	Instead of executing Dial directly, Asterisk checks existence of priority 1 extension s in context std-switch-dial
>   
Maybe instead of fixing 'std-witch-dial'  the name of this context could
be specified by variable,
DUNDIDIALCONTEXT?

THanks
Vadim



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