[Asterisk-Users] PRI dropped calls w/ asterisk dropped between pstn & norstar

[Matt Fredrickson]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 08:50:50PM -0400, Gary Reuter wrote:
> I dropped an asterisk server with a TE405P between a Norstar Meridian
> PBX and it's PRI PSTN connection.  Everything seemed to work fine
> using a pass-thru-type dialplan configuration... except now we've
> realised that outbound calls to celphones get dropped upon connect,
> but not on every call (almost always the first try, but not the
> second).  All other calls to non-celphones had no problems at all.
> I've had to reconnect the legacy PBX directly to the PSTN because it
> was too much of a problem.
> Asterisk was simply passing calls on one side to the other.  The 'pri
> debug span' and regular logging doesn't appear have anything unusual
> or obvious.  Limited testing could not reproduce the problem when
> calling from a SIP-phone out through the same PRI.
> The only things I can think of are not having 'transfer=no' anywhere
> in my zapata.conf (although none of the docs indicate this applies to
> a PRI), or having set the wrong switch type (set to dms100 when I
> maybe should have set national).
> 
> I'm hoping someone else has encountered this and has a 'quick' fix or
> explanation, or can at least suggest what I should be looking for
> specifically in the pri debug output.

If you can post your `pri debug span X` (where X is the span in question)
we might be able to help you a little better.

-- 
Matthew Fredrickson