[Asterisk-Users] How to make groups of extensions ???

[Andrew Kohlsmith]

On Tuesday 21 March 2006 12:25, Aaron Daniel wrote:
> Yeah, I agree with Chuck.  User's on our system are put into various
> contexts depending on who they can call... local, long distance, or
> internal only.

And *all* of those people are placing calls *in* to asterisk to get into those 
contexts.  :-)

When you pick up a telephone wired into an FXS port; asterisk sees an incoming 
request for dialtone.

When you pick up your SIP phone and dial; it must match a friend or user entry 
or you'll never get in.

When your IAX softphone client makes a call, again, it must match a friend or 
user entry.

These are *all* incoming calls as far as Asterisk is concerned.  You get 
dumped into a specific part of the dialplan (the context specified) and you 
tell Asterisk what they can dial.  Internal extensions, external peers, Zap 
channels or even applications... the second half of all of this is the 
outgoing part, when Asterisk Dial()s.

-A.

-A.