thanks for enlightening. So you mean, if I have 3 lines when the caller dialled the first line and it was busy, the call will be diverted to the next two available lines in random? <br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/27/07,
<b class="gmail_sendername">David Cook</b> <<a href="mailto:dbc_asterisk@advan.ca">dbc_asterisk@advan.ca</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> is it possible to define a pilot number in asterisk, say I have 3<br>direct<br>> lines and I want one of those direct lines to be used as pilot number?<br>> When that number is contacted it will be redirected to the available
<br> zap<br>> and original zap that receive it will be freed to receive another<br>call.<br>> It can only be used when all 2 lines ares used.<br>Lito<br><br>I'm assuming you are talking about analog lines as PRI's will do this
<br>more-or-less naturally.<br><br>This is a telco feature as opposed to an Asterisk feature. Here in Bell<br>Canada country they call it "Ringer Equivalence". Call your local<br>carrier and they should be able to tell you what they call it in their
<br>marketing world. You tell the telco which lines you want the calls to<br>"roll" to then all three will terminate calls to the pilot number.<br><br>Now it doesn't work exactly as you had described - it doesn't move the
<br>call so as to free up the first port. It merely says the first port is<br>busy and terminates the next call on the next port in sequence. This<br>means you can't count on which line is "available" at any time. For
<br>outbound, you need to put the three lines in an Asterisk group and test<br>the group for availability to select an available line to dial out on.<br><br>dbc.<br>--<br>David Cook<br>_______________________________________________
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