[asterisk-users] Does X-Lite 'remember' Congestion state? (halfway OT)

[Kristian Kielhofner]

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Paul Schewietzek <tetsuo2k6 at web.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
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> I noticed a strange X-Lite behavior, it's connected to an asterisk box.
> The client registers normally and everything works fine. When I dial out
> (via E1-PRI) and the called party is unavailable, and asterisk indicates
> CONGESTION to X-Lite. So far so good.
>
> When I try to make another call directly after that (doesn't matter if
> the same or a different extension is being dialed), X-Lite again tells
> me about unavailability, but on the asterisk console nothing happens, it
> seems like X-Lite didn't even try to pass the call to asterisk. The only
> way to immediately make another call is to restart X-Lite :(
>
> After waiting a few minutes, everything works fine again. This behavior
> is reproducable.
>
> I wonder if X-Lite tries to 'remember' about the unavailability, because
> it thinks 'Hey, we didn't get a connection two minutes ago, chances are
> we won't get one now', which of course would be stupid when we dial a
> different extension.
>
> Could it be that? Or do you think maybe I'm looking in the wrong
> direction? Any ideas how to get around that behavior (X-Lite, as far as
> I can see, has no options available regarding that issue)? Maybe
> asterisk is able to say 'Don't think you're smart!' to the client phone
> via SIP? (I don't know much about SIP internals)
>
>
>
> Kindest regards, Paul
>

We've been experiencing this behavior with CounterPath for a while
now.  They've acknowledged the bug but haven't provided a fix yet...

If you restart the phone or wait about 10 minutes (I think) it should
be able to make outbound calls again.

-- 
Kristian Kielhofner
http://blog.krisk.org