[Asterisk-Users] gateways failover with asterisk

[Eric Wieling aka ManxPower]

brett-asterisk at worldcall.net wrote:
> john rival wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've searched the archive but can't seem to find the answer to my
>> problem.
>> i have two gateways running with asterisk , my question is : is there 
>> any possibility to do failover with gateways with asterisk ? i mean 
>> that if one gateway is down , asterisk switch automatically to other 
>> gateway .
>> i have succefully used failover with limit number off calls (if gw1 
>> have max calls ,asterisk swith to gw2) , but now i want if it is 
>> possible  if  gw1   is down ,asterisk go out over gw1 ?
> 
> You could do a pri+101 on the dial.. so if the first dial fails, try the 
> second.
> 

What if the destination number is busy?  Then a second call (using the 
second gateway) would be made to the same number.  Use ${DIALSTATUS} to 
see the status of Dial.  See README.variables and [marco-stdexten] in 
extensions.conf.sample.

--Eric

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