[Asterisk-Users] astcc with multiple access

[Mike Nugent]

I believe to do this effectively, I will have to modify asterisk's Dial
command to accept a timeout like 'L'.  The difference would be that this
new command would allow asterisk to find this variable in shared memory
instead of locally.  This would allow the AGI script as well as the
asterisk calls to find it and limit the calls approperiately.  Then the
card would never go negative.

On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 15:26, Karl H. Putz wrote:
> >-----Original Message-----
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> >[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com]On Behalf Of Mike Nugent
> >Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 5:31 PM
> >To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> >Subject: [Asterisk-Users] astcc with multiple access
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >I'm looking at astcc and it seems that setting up a script that will
> >allow multiple people to access a calling card simultaneously would be
> >fairly difficult.  Before I endevour to develop this, has anyone already
> >done it/looked at this/can point me in the right direction?
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
> >--
> >Mike Nugent <asterisk at illuminatus.org>
> >
> >
> Mike,
> 
> It would not really be very difficult to remove all references to the
> 'inuse' field.
> 
> But, you may want to consider possibly using that field as a counter rather
> than
> a boolean flag.  That way, you could impose a maximum number of simultaneous
> users of an account.
> 
> Basically rather than setting 0 or 1, you could increment the field by 1
> when a new
> user authenticates and decrement when that caller drops.  Check the value
> against
> your desired maximum instead of a simple boolean 1 to block additional users
> of
> that account.
> 
> Be aware that if you allow this type of use, your account balance could very
> easily
> go negative.
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> 
> Karl Putz
> 
> 
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