[Asterisk-Users] ZAP - outgoing call using different D-Channel eachtime ?

[Matthew Boehm]

Walter Klomp wrote:
> Hi Fellow Asteriskians,
>
> Currently I am having an Asterisk installation piggy-backed behind an
> "intelligent" voice-switch that does the LCR, over E1's using Digium
> TE410p
>
> The problem is that Asterisk always starts channel 1 if the channel
> is free, and only switches to channel 2 if channel 1 is in use...
>
> Can the behaviour be changed so that outgoing calls using ZAP
> channels are on a rotary basis, like 1..30 and then back to 1 for
> each outgoing call?  It has namely happened that channel 1 on the
> other side "hung" in the "Free" state which severely impacted my
> operations as you can imagine...
>
> Hope somebody can shed some light on this. I can't seem to find the
> option in any of the zap conf files and I have been trying to meddle
> with the chan_zap.c source file to no avail...

Don't you mean B-Channel? You only need 1 D-channel.

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+Zap+channels

I use Dial(ZAP/R1d/2815551212,30) on all our zap calls and this will go in
order on the span.

-Matthew