[Asterisk-Users] new to Asterisk, is it possible to call two external lines and connect them using two channels

Tom Hayden thayden at gmail.com
Wed Jul 20 10:47:40 MST 2005


I'm afraid that you're going to have to incur the cost of the call if
you are calling both parties then bridging the call.  Otherwise, there
would be no-one to bill.  Besides, your box is going to be the one
doing the bridging.

--
Tom

On 7/20/05, Robert Bachan <robtrinibachan at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  Hi All,
>  I am just looking at using Asterisk now and the first thing I need to 
>  do is via pass two external numbers to asterisk and call out 
>  connecting the calls togther. These will be through our physical PBX
> connected to the asterisk 
> server. We are essentially trying to connect two external numbers through
> asterisk with us incurring the cost of the calls.
>  
>  I've been reading on call out files and the manager API. I can see 
>  how to call an external number and bridge it to an extension. Do I 
>  have to run an application on that extension to then dial the second 
>  external number and then they both connect?
> 
> Many Thanks in advance guys
> Rob
> 
> 
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Tom



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