[Asterisk-Users] forced ring on dial?

[Jeremy Jones]

I'd be willing to bet you have "r" in your dialout string (i.e.
something like: Dial(${TRUNK}/${EXTEN},120,r)...

Get rid of that in the outbound dialing, and you otta be ok.

Jeremy Jones 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com 
> [mailto:asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
> Bruce Komito
> Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 8:52 AM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] forced ring on dial?
> 
> I am routing outgoing calls through a sip gateway.  The calls 
> go through
> no problem, however the ringing in the callers ear begins as 
> soon as the
> last digit is dialed.  This has two nasty side effects.  
> First, the caller
> hears 1-2 more rings than the callee.  Second, and more 
> importantly, if
> the callee's line is busy, the caller continues to get hear 
> ringing, even
> though the gateway has returned a busy indication.
> 
> The whole problem seems to be * is not waiting for the proper call
> progress signal from the sip gateway before giving the caller a ring
> indication.  Is there any way to control this so that * waits for call
> progress from the gateway before giving the caller the appropriate
> indication, i.e., ring or busy tone?  I have been told this 
> is a result of
> setting * to "forced ring" and this should be turned off, but 
> of course,
> on * it is probably called something else.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Bruce Komito
> High Sierra Networks, Inc.
> www.servers-r-us.com
> (775) 236-5815
> 
> 
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