[Asterisk-Users] TE405p -- loopback for the phone company?

Kevin Bockman asterisk at wunderkin.com
Tue Jan 10 15:22:03 MST 2006


Eric Lyons wrote:
> Feeling once again like an idiot, I come to the list for help...
> 
> While my carrier (MCI vi PRI, fwiw) was trying to diagnose a problem, 
> they asked me to put my interface in loopback -- and I couldn't figure 
> out what they meant or how to do it.  I've plugged a loopback 
> *connector* into my 405p and tested it internally, but they wanted 
> something that, apparently, looped back _their_ signal.
> 
> What the?
> 
> I got zttool running and selected "loop" on the interface, but it didn't 
> seem to do what they wanted (nor could I tell that it did anything at 
> all).  Many googles for zaptel and loop didn't turn up anything useful.

Yeah, I tried to do that before too but it didn't do anything.  It must 
not support all switch types or something.  The best you can do probably 
is to loop it at another place, but it gets rid of testing the equipment :(

Remote loopup isn't supported either.


Kevin



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