[asterisk-users] Dealing with 2 SIP providers

[Andrew Joakimsen]

I would suggest you at least look into DIALSTATUS.

Guys:

The dialplan is not a toy. You need to consider with care the results
of your actions. What Mike posted is an example of a bad dialplan in
the works.

On 5/11/07, Mike <list at virtutel.ca> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a question of using 2 SIP providers.  Let's say I have provider A and
> provider B, and I would like my calls to go to A, and then B if A wasn`t
> available
>
> Something like this would work:
> exten => 1234,1,Dial(SIP/providerA)
> exten => 1234,2,Dial(providerB)
> exten => 1234,3,Hangup
>
> But what if I want to put in a delay? If I put 30 seconds on each of them,
> I'll wait a total of 60.  I want to wait only 30 seconds before the hang up.
>
> Also, if ProviderA has a main server and a backup server, am I now forced to
> have 3 Dial commands, or can I setup ProviderA with host and backuphost in
> the same SIP entry?
>
> Mike
>
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>
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