[Asterisk-Users] [Fwd: Call forwarding]

[JD Austin]

Works for me, though I believe asterisk just bridges the call.

JD
Michael D Schelin wrote:

> As far as I know Asterisk does not support normal PSTN  type call 
> forwarding.  I.E. the user would type *72 etc.  This is called call 
> forking. My Mulitech gateway does but at a huge price. Also T38 is 
> supported.  I have several carriers that I use that have Asterisk. All 
> of the Asterisk boxs won't  accept call fowarding. I send the calls to 
> my carriers with Cisco gateways and the calls reroute correctly.  Now 
> I have a proxie that controls everything. You may be able to do call 
> fowarding with 2 boxes. But a call in and reroute back out may not work.
>
> Damian Funnell wrote:
>
>> Any takers?  Sometimes the most basic questions yield the least 
>> replies, huh?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Damian.
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject:     Call forwarding
>> Date:     Wed, 04 May 2005 08:40:41 +1200
>> From:     Damian Funnell <damian.funnell at fff.co.nz>
>> To:     Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion 
>> <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
>> References:     <4251B3AB.30608 at davidson.id.au> 
>> <011701c53a15$2aaecc30$0a00a8c0 at HOUSTON>
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi team,
>>
>> Basic question I know, but I can't seem to find any obvious 
>> information about this:
>>
>> Does anyone know if * natively supports call forwarding from a given 
>> extension (i.e. call forwarding without having to write a macro)?
>>
>> My user wants to be able to dial a code plus a phone number to start 
>> diverting all calls to the given extension to that number.  Call 
>> forwarding would then be disabled by dialling a code number again.
>>
>> I expected that * would support this type of feature natively, but 
>> can't find anything in the wiki.  If responding please let me know if 
>> we need to enable anything in features.conf as well.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Damian.
>>
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