[asterisk-users] are channel names unique

[Russell Bryant]

Benjamin Jacob wrote:
> Are the channel names generated on 'Dial's supposed to be unique? 
> I see the channel names repeating on my asterisk box. I just wanted to confirm this.
> Can anyone point me to the lines of code where the channel name is generated/calculated? I tried looking, but it looks like quite a big maze.

Channel names are not guaranteed to be unique at all.  However, all channels 
have a uniqueid associated with them.  You can access it in the dialplan via 
${UNIQUEID}.

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Russell Bryant
Senior Software Engineer
Open Source Team Lead
Digium, Inc.