[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk PRI problems.

[Kristian Larsson]

On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 03:36:57PM +0200, steve at daviesfam.org wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2 Jan 2006, Kristian Larsson wrote:
> 
> > I have an Avaya IP Office PBX connected to an
> > Asterisk system via a Sangoma ISDN PRI card.
> > Dialing from the as
> > terisk system into the avaya works just fine but
> > when trying to call from a phone connected to the
> > avaya syste
> > m something goes wrong. After punching the first
> > four digits the Avaya calls out, shouldn't it wait
> > for all di
> > gits and then dial out?
> > If I try to dial a three digit number it waits for
> > a while then dials.
> > 
> > Is this some feature to let the CO know of which
> > area code the calls is going ahead of time?
> > Is there some way to circumvent this using hacks
> > on the asterisk side?
> 
> 
> Looks like you need to enable overlapdial=yes on the Asterisk side.  It
> will then wait for additional digits sent from the Avaya after the initial
> ones sent with the SETUP.
I did try enabling overlapdial=yes but I saw no
real change. Is there any other variable to go
with it that I might need to tune?

I am quite new to the whole PRI thing. What does
it do when setting up a call?

First a SETUP and after that it dials?

Regards,
Kristian