[asterisk-users] CWI, call-limit and incominglimit

[Olle E Johansson]

24 feb 2007 kl. 11.07 skrev Pavel Jezek:

>
>
> Olle E Johansson wrote:
>>
>> 23 feb 2007 kl. 12.42 skrev Steve Davies:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> In older versions of asterisk I used to be able to use
>>> "incominglimit=1" to effectively disable call waiting on a specific
>>> SIP channel (Where broken phones do not allow this on the handset
>>> itself)
>>
>>>
>>> In 1.2.x this became "call-limit=1", but this prevents the phone  
>>> from
>>> opening a 2nd line in order to transfer a call using attended
>>> transfer. The WiKi suggests using SetGroup() etc, but this does not
>>> cater for the case where you are Dialling several different phones
>>> simultaneously.
>>>
>> You can still set one call-limit for the user and another for the
>> peer. The peer call-limit would be used to prevent call waiting
>> and the user limit could be set to a reasonable level so the phone
>> can do transfers.
>>
>>
> it can be also usefull to use 'limitonpeer' option in sip.conf
> with this, it would not be needed to define separate type=user and  
> type=peer for each phone,
> instead define one type=friend and apply limitonpeers=yes
>
>
> ;limitonpeers=no                ; Apply all call limits ("limit=")  
> only to peers, never
>                                ; to users. This improves handling  
> of call limits
>                                ; and device states in certain  
> situations. The user part
>                                ; of a type=friend will still be  
> affected by the call
>                                ; limit, but Asterisk will only use  
> one object for
>                                ; counting the simultaneous calls.

Well, yes. That option does not exist in 1.2, it's someting I have  
implemented
in svn trunk. And in this particular case, different call limits on  
the user
and the peer seemed useful.

/O