[asterisk-users] Cisco 7961 - can't place calls

[David Gibbons]

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Thanks for the reply.  I am not getting any output from the Asterisk CLI when I place the call.  The phone give busy signal as soon as I push the first digit of the extension #.  When I call the 7961 from another extension I get the following on the CLI - that works fine.
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If the phone gives a fast busy AS SOON as you type a digit, the problem is likely that you need to edit your dialplan.xml file on your TFTP server, so that the phone knows not to send digits immediately after you start typing:
Contents of dialplan.xml (customize to fit your situation):
<DIALTEMPLATE>
        <TEMPLATE MATCH="91.........." TIMEOUT="0"/>
        <TEMPLATE MATCH="9[2-9]......" TIMEOUT="0"/>
        <TEMPLATE MATCH="10." TIMEOUT="0"/>
        <TEMPLATE MATCH="5.." TIMEOUT="0"/>
        <TEMPLATE MATCH="605" TIMEOUT="0"/>
        <TEMPLATE MATCH="*" TIMEOUT="10"/>
</DIALTEMPLATE>

-Dave