[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk and Dial-Up ISP

[Johnathan Bunn]

I dont know if this is possible from your end, but couldn't you just
put the modem on  another  machine, and have its phone line pluged
into a station port, that way it would dial out and be just like any
other call?

I  would thing that would be the best solution

John


On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 15:59:39 +0100, Kevin Walsh <kevin at cursor.biz> wrote:
> Mark_C_Thomas at bankone.com wrote:
> > Yes, I know this is lame, but my location limits me to using a dial-up
> > ISP.  I am running asterisk with a T100P and a TDM400 card.  I currently
> > have dial-on-demand setup on the same box, using diald and an external
> > modem.  To prevent DOD from trying to dial out during an external call, I
> > have an AGI script kill diald before initiating a call, and then restart
> > it at the end of the call by looking for the call record in the cdr-csv
> > log.  This works most of the time, but not always.  Sometimes a call gets
> > dropped and the user will redial before agi completes, resulting in a
> > mess.
> > So my question is: is there a better way to integrate asterisk with
> > dial-up on a single phone line?  Can I use the T100P as a modem somehow
> > and have asterisk arbitrate it's use?
> > 
> Yuck!
> 
> I assume that you only need to kill the diald when making PSTN calls.
> Then again, that's probably how you make the bulk (if not all) of your
> calls, considering your limited bandwidth. :-)
> 
> Rather than scanning the CDR somehow, perhaps you should use the 'h'
> extension to detect the hangup.  You can run an AGI or System from
> there to do whatever you need.
> 
> You could get fancy and create some sort of lock file to prevent
> Asterisk from dialling out while the restart AGI is running.  The
> "kill diald" script could check for the lock file and either wait or
> die.  The "restart diald" script could create a file wile processing
> and delete when done.
> 
> Just to reiterate my earlier point - yuck! :-)
> 
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