[asterisk-users] dial in group

[Eric "ManxPower" Wieling]

Asterisk does not detect analog ports with no line plugged in.  It does 
not test for dialtone before dialing (this applies to all analog cards 
except the X100P).

Rilawich Ango wrote:
> It works if it specified the port exactly plugged to PSTN.  I want to
> clarify the dial command here.
> 
> Dial(zap/g1/1234567)
> 
> It will try channel 1, if it is busy, congested then it will try
> channel 2 and so on, right?
> I wonder if I don't plug the PSTN to channel 1, there should not be a
> dial tone on it.  Why it still try channel 1 and make call using it?
> 
> On Nov 25, 2007 5:00 AM, Gordon Henderson <gordon+asterisk at drogon.net> wrote:
>> On Sat, 24 Nov 2007, Rilawich Ango wrote:
>>
>>> I have a TDM400 with all FXO module in it. Only one channel (say
>>> channel 3) is plugged to PSTN. In my understand, a dial command
>>> Dial(zap/g1/12345677) should search an available channel, which is 3,
>>> in group 1 to make a call. However, I found that it will still use
>>> channel 1 to make call even it hasn't plugged to the PSTN. Below are
>>> the conf files.
>>>
>>> --zapata.conf--
>>> group=1
>>> signalling=fxs_ks
>>> context=incoming
>>> channel => 1-8
>> You really only want
>>
>>    channel => 3