[Asterisk-Users] Distinctive ring confusion

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On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 10:23:33AM +1300, Richard Scobie wrote:
> 
> exten => 1,1,Dial,Zap/28		; Ring Zap/28 normally
> exten => 2,1,Dial,Zap/28r1		; Ring Zap/28 with ring #1
> exten => 3,1,Dial,Zap/28r2		; Ring Zap/28 with ring #2
> 
> and when I do a "show application Dial", I see :
> 
> 'r' -- indicate ringing to the calling party, pass no audio until answered
> 
> Which doesn't seem to match up with what I have in mind.

You are confusing the other parameters to Dial with
modifiers that chan_zap knows about. The Dial documentation
refers to something like this:

exten => 1,1,Dial,Zap/1|60|r

(where 60 is the timeout) 

The Zap/foo just gets passed to chan_zap, Dial doesn't know
anything about distinctive rings.

-w

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