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

[Eric Wieling]

Joe Greco wrote:
> 
> I have to confess that I don't understand the "real problem", then.
> 
> What else are you supposed to do when you've already answered a channel
> and you then want the caller to hear ringing?  It didn't seem to work
> automatically, and I'm certainly not convinced that it should.
> 

That depends on what you are doing.  For normal extensions.conf 
processing I've never needed the "r" option.  Callers always hear a 
ringback.

Call comes into the IVR, user dials extension, caller hears the ringback 
as soon as the Dial() command runs.