[asterisk-users] is chanisavail command reliable?

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If you have a PRI, why are you telling asterisk which channel to use?
why don't you set groups in zapata.conf and just use g1 or the like?

On 9/18/06, Giorgio Incantalupo <gincantalupo at fgasoftware.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have an Asterisk box on a Debian Sarge distro with a Sangoma a102 PRI
> card and I have a big problem: Asterisk drops a lot of outbound calls.
> I do not use groups, I want to use a free channel given from Asterisk.
>
> What I do is:
> 1) use "chanisavail" command to ask Asterisk for a free channel to use
> 2) use that channel to dial outbound calls
>
> Asterisk gives me the free channel but when I make a call Asterisk tells
> me the channel is not available (I check variable ${AVAILSTATUS}). I
> checked but that channel is not busy on another call.
> How can it be possible? Is there anybody who can help me?
>
> TIA
>
>
> Giorgio Incantalupo
>
>
>
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