[Asterisk-Users] TDMoE questions

[Marc Storck]

Hello,

thanks for the answers!!! You mentionned to use the switch command. I 
read about it in the WIKI, but I couldn't find enought information to 
understand what it is actually doing. Can someone point me to the right 
direction?

Marc

Steven Critchfield wrote:

> On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 21:41, Marc Storck wrote:
> 
>>Hello,
>>
>>I want to link several * boxes together. Some of them are dedicated as 
>>"user" servers (SIP and IAX clients connect to them) and some are used 
>>as PRI servers (where the PRIs are hooked onto).
>>
>>I think TDMoE is the only channel type where you can group different 
>>Interfaces into a single group.
>>
>>E.g. for using Dial(ZAP/g1/12345), I think you cannot group different 
>>IAX accounts and use them via Dial(IAX/g1/12345). Or am I wrong??
> 
> 
> IAX with groups doesn't make sense. IAX being a network protocol is not
> physical port limited like PSTN hardware. Your trick here is to
> understand that you can dial via IAX from one machine to another and the
> second machine then takes the incoming call and does it's own
> Dial(Zap/g1/12345). Or with the use of a switch command, the IAX
> connections to the other side is implied and the remote side says it can
> complete the call so the "user" machine says, okay, do it.
> 
> TDMoE has a limitation of X channels per link, and some people have
> noted troubles when trying to use more than one TDMoE circuit. IAX has
> no trouble talking to mulitple places and multiple calls.