[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Features/Dial Codes (Newbie question?)

[John Todd]

At 1:59 AM -0700 on 3/23/05, GP wrote:
>I just installed <mailto:asterisk at home>asterisk at home and connected 
>it to broadvoice via SIP.
>
>I've setup an auto-attendant, extensions and everything it working 
>extremely well.
>
>I can dial in, I can dial out.  Everything works great.
>
>What I am using is as follows:
>
>   Box is an generic Intel box with a PIII/1Ghz processor and 256Mb 
>of RAM and a 4 Gb drive.
>   Network is behind a basic NAT from a Linksys cable router.
>   Outbound is provided by broadvoice.com VoIP provider via SIP.
>   I'm using X-lite softphones from xten.
>
>I have found everything pretty much self-explanator and easy to use. 
>I can not, however, despite a lot of searching on the internet and a 
>lot of reading and checking pages, find answers to a few basic 
>questions.  My questions are as follows:
>
>1.  I've searched and searched.  I've read the entire draft of the 
>users guide.  I can not find a decent list of the dial codes, such 
>as this short list:
>  *72Call Forwarding System
>  *73Disable Call Forwarding
>  *77IVR Recording
>  *78Enable Do-Not-Disturb
>  *79Disable Do-Not-Disturb
>  *90Call Forward on Busy
>  *91Disable Call Forward on Busy
>  *98Enter Message Center  (also found that *98<exten> enters 
>extention directly)
>  *99Playback IVR Recording
>  7777Simulate incoming call
>  1234System will tell you your extension
>
>2.  I want to know if there is a dial code or a way of putting calls 
>on hold.  I've set this up to get some experience with Asterisk to 
>evaluation a possible migration from our Inter-Tel system at work to 
>asterisk.  It is on my system at home, but if I can not get a hold 
>feature, it would not work for work.
>
>I got all of this working after reading an article from a link on 
>slashdot.org to 
><http://www.geekgazette.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2&Itemid=26>http://www.geekgazette.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2&Itemid=26 and 
>it's all working great.  I want to test the on hold system and the 
>on hold music, but I can not.
>
>I appreciate your answers.
>
>GP


The answer to #1 can be found here:

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-CLASS


JT