[Asterisk-Users] Re: Dial 'R' option gone?

[Tony Mountifield]

In article <200604290735.59235.benoit.panizzon at imp.ch>,
Benoit Panizzon <benoit.panizzon at imp.ch> wrote:
> On Friday 28 April 2006 15:32, Eric "ManxPower" Wieling wrote:
> > What does the "R" option do?
> 
> Indicate 'Ringing' as soon as the called party indicates 'Ringing'.
> 
> The 'r' option indicates 'Ringing' as soon as the connection is built, even if 
> the called party is not yet ringing.
> 
> With some SIP Services I then had the situation that the call was 'hanging' on 
> the gateway, gut the caller heard a ringing, so tought the called phone would 
> be ringing which was not the case.
> 
> Apparently R also works with 1.2.5 even if not documented.

Are you certain the version in which you had the 'R' option was standard
Asterisk? Could it have been a BRIstuff version instead? Or with some other
patch?

Cheers
Tony
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