[Asterisk-Users] Multiple gateways for same dial pattern

[Eric Wieling]

Adi Linden wrote:

> I can do the dial command like this to give me a 20 second timeout
> 
>     exten => _9737XXXX,1,Dial(SIP/${EXTEN:1}@172.17.99.5,20)
> 
> But this also means that after 20 seconds of ringing it goes on the next
> dialpeer. I would like to be able to set the timeout Asterisk wait to
> establish a connection, any connection, with the gateway to something much
> shorter than it is now.
> 
> Similar to what you stated, I use VoipJet/NuFone at home. The other day
> VoipJet had problems and my calls didn't go through. I took the
> opportunity to try configure some sort of failover configuration to
> NuFone. Couldn't make it work in an acceptable manner and had to manually
> change the dialplan.

You want to check the value of ${DIALSTATUS} in your priority 2.  See 
asterisk/doc/README.variables and "show application gotoif"