[Asterisk-Users] fine-tuning asterisk questions

[Matt Riddell (IT)]

undrhil.1528785 at bloglines.com wrote:
>> Yes you are correct... by default asterisk will >send the call to priority
> 
>> N+101... what is your point?
>>
>> You asked about turning off "call waiting".
>  In the example that I provided,
>> if the amount of active calls is "1" then
> it will forward to VM without
>> dialing the exten. That is what you asked
> for... right?
>> bp
> 
> Nope.  I am a different poster just wanting to
> clarify (for myself) that Asterisk would do exactly what the original poster
> wanted without any special programming.  I wasn't aware that there would be
> any kind of notification to the station being called that there was a second
> call incoming.  Everything I've read so far just says that if the station
> is in use, the call is routed to priority n + 101 as a busy call.

Only if you use the j option in the dial command.  In previous versions
it did it automatically:

  'j' -- Jump to n+101 if all of the channels were busy.

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Cheers,

Matt Riddell
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