[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk 1.0 & Zaptel 1.0 -- False Hangup Disaster

[Benjamin on Asterisk Mailing Lists]

I was really looking forward to Asterisk 1.0 et al, but it is a major
disappointment. I have never experienced any Asterisk release that was
interacting with Digium hardware so unreliably.

Asterisk hangs up on every outgoing PSTN call (via Zaptel) as soon as
the call is being picked up at the other end.

I have tried various X100P (original Digium) cards, various phone
lines and just about every possible combination of parameters in
zaptel.conf (from every feature off to most features on) but without
any success.

The same hardware was working fine with CVS from about a month ago.


The problem of false hangups really needs to be fixed. A false hangup
is NEVER EVER acceptable in an office environment. On the other hand,
a call that doesn't hangup even if the remote party has already hung
up is ALWAYS acceptable. Therefore, if the software is not capable of
detecting hangups properly, then why not provide a setting to disable
any and all hangup decisions now made by software and let the human
user decide instead. There should be a setting "hangup=local-only"
that would have the effect that no channel will ever be hung up unless
the (non-Zap) local party has hungup.

As things stand now, we won't be able to deploy this 1.0 release if
Zaptel is required. What a pity.

rgds
benjk

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