[Asterisk-Users] Very complicated dialplans?

[Eric Wieling aka ManxPower]

Peter Svensson wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, Robert Goodyear wrote:
> 
> 
>>Can you educate us all on the appropriate circumstances in which to  
>>use 'r'?
> 
> 
> Some devices (voip phones, softphones) do not generate in band progress 
> information when ringing. You will quickly find out if a particular 
> end device requires the 'r' option or not. 
> 
> You almost never want it enabled on a trunk line, only for terminal 
> devices.

Almost nothing generates inband ringing.  That has nothing to do with "r".


-- 
Eric Wieling * BTEL Consulting * 504-210-3699 x2120

r: Generate a ringing tone for the calling party, passing no audio from
the called channel(s) until one answers. Use with care and don't insert
this by default into all your dial statements as you are killing call
progress information for the user. Really, you almost certainly do not
want to use this. Asterisk will generate ring tones automatically where
it is appropriate to do so. "r" makes it go the next step and
additionally generate ring tones where it is probably not appropriate to
do so.