[Asterisk-Users] Reverse group in zapata.conf

[Sean Kennedy]

Much thanks to you and the others who responded.  Turns out I had been
reading the part in the wiki that contained this a few times and
completely missed it.

My thanks

Greg Scasny wrote:
> I think what your asking is pretty easy, just change the lowercase g in
> your extensions.conf file to an uppercase G. If you have a TRUNK type
> variable declared, this will be cake. If not you will need to change the
> little g, as in Zap/g1 to Zap/G1 everywhere you have it used.
>
> Hope that helped........>> 
>
>
> Gregory P. Scasny
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Sean
> Kennedy
> Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 8:04 PM
> To: Asterisk - Users
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Reverse group in zapata.conf
>
> Hey all,
>
> I have a situation where I have 8 lines from the phone company in a hunt
> group coming in to my asterisk box.  These are the same lines I'm using
> for outgoing calls ( named g0 ). 
>
> The problem arises when someone dials our number at the same time
> asterisk tries to put a call out on one of the zap channels in the g0
> group.  This has happened twice that I know of so far, once to myself.  
> Asterisk opens the line before it's answered, and tries to dial.  This
> has the effect of connecting the outside caller to the dialing party,
> which is the problem.
>
> My rather messy solution would be to have a reverse 'group' command in
> my zapata.conf file.  So if I try dialing out on g1 ( my reverse group,
> 24-17 ), it starts at the top and works it's way down.  Meanwhile, my
> external hunt group would still ring normally ( 17-24 ), thus minimizing
> the potential for conflict to a level that I'm comfortable with.
>
> Is this possible?  If it isn't, I plan to reverse the order in which the
> lines are connected to my * box, having the same effect ( with no
> configuration changes.  :) ).  Anybody have any advice why I shouldn't
> do this either?  Any other suggestions?
>
> Thanks
>
> Sean Kennedy
>   


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