[Asterisk-Users] Leave one call to pick up another

[Andrew Thompson]

Hadar Pedhazur wrote:
> Andrew Thompson wrote:
>> Eric Wieling wrote:
>>> How is this different from the way standard call waiting works when
>>> provided from your telco?
>> 
>> Um, he actually has two phone lines, not just one that he's
>> flash-ing back and forth between. 
>> 
>> If he hangs up the line, does the second call not continue ringing? I
>> take it once he hangs up the line both calls are gone?
> 
> I can't help with any solution, but I can add my voice describing
> another symptom of this exact problem, in direct response to your
> last question.  
> 
> I have two lines, each handled by a Digium X100P card. If I
> am on the phone (whether I initiated a call, or received
> one, whether it uses one of the POTS lines or whether it's a VoIP
> call), if another call comes in, I hear the Call Waiting signal. If I
> simply hang up the current call, I lose _both_ calls. Meaning, the
> phone does not start ringing with the pending call any longer.   
> 
> This is _not_ the same behavior that I had with the same
> exact phone, when it was connected to the POTS line
> directly. Hanging up on the current call yields a ringing
> for the second call, after a second or two delay...
> 
> P.S. If I "flash" the call, I can indeed speak to the second caller,
> and bounce back and forth between the calls, so I get the same
> behavior that the original poster (Brian  
> Capouch) described.

Unless someone has a configuration that doesn't exhibit this behavior, I'd
say it's time for some Mark Spencer branded Raid*

I can attempt to recreate this behavior tonight, for commenting on a bug
report.

Can the original poster open a bug at bugs.digium.com (if they haven't
already)?

*(bug spray)