[Asterisk-Users] PSTN intercepted announcement

[Michael Manousos]

Michael Ulitskiy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have asterisk functioning as SIP to H.323 gateway for local SIP endpoints and I have H.323 to PSTN
> gateway (Lucent MAX TNT) connecting my LAN VOIP to PSTN via PRI.
> Everything works fine with one exception. I seem to be unable to figure out why I cannot hear 
> PSTN intercepted announcement  ("number is not in service" etc.) when I'm calling 
> a disconnected number through asterisk. The phone just keeps ringing.
> I know everything's fine with my PSTN connection and gateway, because I have other
> H.323 endpoints connecting directly to gateway without asterisk involved and it works for them.
> It seems that somehow both available h323 drivers for asterisk cannot handle those messages.
> I did some experimenting and found that H.323 FastFtart must be enabled in order for this to work
> (without faststart enabled it doesn't work for h.323 endpoints too). 
> I tried to explicitly enable it on both h323 and oh323 drivers, but it didn't work with asterisk anyway.

For the case of OH323, can you send me more details
(conf file, log, tracefile) to check it?

> I'm not a telecom professional and I'm stucked here. So I thought I'd ask for help here :)
> Has anybody noticed this? Any ideas?
> Thanks.

Michael.