[Asterisk-Users] Problem with chan-capi: outgoing calls on two lines

[Karsten Wemheuer]

Hello Armin,

Am Mo, den 27.02.2006 schrieb Armin Schindler um 20:23:
> On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Karsten Wemheuer wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > On Mo, 27 Feb 2006, Armin Schindler wrote:
> > > This is not a bug, just normal behaviour.
> > > chan_capi does not know about the status of the ISDN line, it assumes to be
> > > usable when configured. So when you try to dial out chan_capi will choose
> > > a channel/line according to internal list of free channels and selects it
> > > in the CAPI request. When the driver reports an error via CAPI, 
> > > chan_capi just signals this error to Asterisk. 
> > > There is no logic in chan_capi to do something like:
> > >  If the controller 1 isn't ready, use controller 2.
> > Ok, I didn't know the details of the capi layer.
> > > 
> > > The same happens if the b-channels are already used by another
> > > application/device.
> > ... which would not happen on a line in point-to-point mode.
> 
> No, the line mode doesn't matter. If you have another application
> running using CAPI, chan_capi also doesn't know about the usage.
No, I have no other applications running. And on a point-to-point link
there is no other device. 
As long as there is no outage on the line, I would not have any
problems.

Thanks for Your information
Karsten