[Asterisk-Users] How to generate "ringing tone" to a calling party.

[Eric Wieling]

Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:
> On November 17, 2004 04:30 pm, Eric Wieling wrote:
> 
>>Asterisk will ALWAYS indicate ringing if it can.
> 
> 
>>The "r" option to Dial, Playtones, and Ringing are all hacks/workarounds
>>for when Asterisk cannot indicate ringing to the calling party.  You
>>should diagnose and fix the real problem, rather than try hiding the issue.
> 
> 
> How do these statements work with my PRI which asterisk will not make ring 
> tone unless I specify 'r' ?  Doesn't seem like much of a hack to me...

My PRI always gives the caller ringback, both incoming and outgoing 
calls.  Lots of people use PRIs without "r".