[Asterisk-Users] Transfer / Music-On-Hold

[Christopher L. Wade]

Christopher L. Wade wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have what IMHO is an interesting issue.  I'm using Cisco 7940's with 
> the 7.2 SIP load and Asterisk CVS-HEAD-09/10/04-10:11:46.  Everything is 
> working great so far, except one small issue.
> 
> When a user presses the 'Trnsfer' soft-key, dials the other extension, 
> and presses 'Trnsfer' again, before the other party picks up, hold music 
> for the original caller stops.  I know that users should use 'BlndXfer' 
> for this, but one user did this with the regular 'Trnsfer' and noticed 
> the hold music stopped.

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> If I'm doing something stupid, please let me know, I tend to do this 
> when the answer is right in front of my face :)

Well, it was staring me in the face :).  I looked at my SIPDefault.cnf 
and realised that this is called 'semi-attended' transfer and can be 
disabled at the phone.  That is enough for my setup.

[bow]

Thanks,
Chris