[asterisk-users] Zaptel channel reservation

[Jack]

C F schrieb:
> Why would you want to do that? let Asterisk (using zap/g in app_dial)
> take care of which channel are used for outbound but assign all the
> channels to that g, reject any incoming calls if there are already 7
> incoming active calls with a congestion PRI_CAUSE.  Do the same for 20
> outgoing active calls. That should solve your problem, that is if your
> problem is that you don't want to allow more than 20 outbound calls,
> and 7 inbound calls.
>
> There should be no need to reserve channels, in fact you could put in
> much better logic to accomplish what you want efficiently. For example
> although in general you want 20 outbound calls, but if currently 7
> channels are still available (because there are no incoming active
> calls) you might want to allow up to x additional channels for
> outbound, until at least 3 incoming channels are active (or whatever
> the number). The same goes the other way around. Which you wont be
> able to accomplish by reserving channels. In fact by reserving
> channels, you might lose lots of incoming calls, while the outbound
> channels have never reached peak, which basically makes this whole
> thing a waste of money (on the unused channels).
>
>   
You mention good points and although I (in the moment) have no need to 
think about wasted channels and wasted money I will keep this in mind.

> On 7/30/07, Jack <jack.ssh at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have a Wildcard TE110P connected to a E1 line an I want to reserve
>> channels in the following way:
>>
>> channels 1-15 and 17-21 for incoming calls
>> channels 22-28 for outgoing calls
>> channels 29-31 for emergency calls
>>
>> My zaptel.conf looks like this:
>>
>> ; incoming
>> group = 1
>> signalling=pri_cpe
>> context=from-zaptel
>> channel => 1-15
>> channel => 17-21
>>
>> ; outgoing
>> group = 2
>> signalling=pri_cpe
>> channel => 22-28
>>
>> ; emergency
>> group = 3
>> signalling=pri_cpe
>> channel => 29-31
>>
>> How can I avoid that incoming calls are going to the channels 22-31?
>>
>> Regards, Jack
>>
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