[Asterisk-Users] Call Forwarding

[Jesse Keating]

On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 14:54 -0400, Dave Morrow wrote:
> Hi all.  I am attempting to setup a dial plan which will allow me to
> forward an extension.  I have followed the instructions in
> http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk%20call%
> 20forwarding however it does not work correctly.  Does anyone have
> some expertise they could lend.
> 
> Not sure if it matters, but when I setup as in these instructions, and
> attempt to call forward my phone, asterisk logs when in fact I am
> attempting to forward to extension 8001 ;

Post your extensions.conf excerpt where you're trying to do the
forwarding.  I do something as silly-easy as:

exten => 5799,1,Goto(sipphones,5713,1)

Which takes calls coming into 5799 and instead directs them to 5713
within the sipphones context.

-- 
Jesse Keating
GameHouse -- Systems Engineer