[Asterisk-Users] making * more like a normal pbx (cisco ata-186)

[John Todd]

At 3:58 PM -0500 on 6/14/04, Eric Wieling wrote:
>On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 14:51, Jacob Hunter wrote:
>>  got it.. so one more question, this is on a cisco ata-186, (SIP) so
>>  itprobably wont work.  I have gone through the entire "dialplan"
>>  portionof the manual and can't find any function to make it function
>>  in thisway.  I am running firmware 2.16.
>>
>>
>>  j hunter
>>  jmhunter83 at yahoo.ca
>>  On Jun 14, 2004, at 12:26 PM, Andrew Thompson wrote:
>>
>>          Jacob Hunter wrote:
>>                  once u press 9 is there a way to make it so it
>>                  restores dialtone,
>>                  like most pbx's do?
>>                
>>                  so
>>                  dial tone , 9, dialtone, then ur local num
>>        
>>          Google asterisk ignorepat
>>        
>>          -----
>>          Andrew Thompson
>  >         http://aktzero.com/
>
>That's a dirty secret of VoIP.  What you want to do is handled by the
>VoIP device.  Most VoIP devices do not support this feature.  I've heard
>a rumor that the v3.1 SIP firmware for the ATA-186 supports this
>feature, but I don't currently have an ATA-186 available to me to test
>this.



Unless you do some really nasty work with PLARs on your phones 
(hotline dialing) and DISA on Asterisk, and some fairly trivial 
dialplan construction.

Doing this of course totally short-circuits the concepts of 
session-based media services such as IAX and SIP.  However, business 
rules or customer requirements sometimes trump clean implementations 
of technology.

This method will answer Jacob's original question quite nicely, 
though an investigation of how to configure ATA-186 devices to do 
PLAR, and how to use DISA, will be required on his part.

JT