[asterisk-users] Shared Extension

[Raj Jain]

Tony,

This sounds reasonable. Today when Dial "forks" a call, the first
extension that answers "wins". It seems that you want to extend this
mechanism to say that when Dial "forks" a call, the first extension
that reports busy "wins". Sounds like a nice enhancement to Dial.

Raj


On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Tony Plack <Tony at plack.net> wrote:
> Raj,
>  I would say you understand exactly.  It is kind of a SLA, but not.
>
>  SLA does great with a inbound trunk line and multiple extensions, but even in SLA, if one extension is busy, the others ring.
>
>  There is no way to tell asterisk that if it gets a busy on one of the channels, that the extension is busy, period.
>
>  The terminology to say that multiple extensions appear as a single extension is not correct either.  To say that you would have to define an extension in the system and that each of these extension numbers is pooled in a Local type dial command to the single extension.  So because that terminology is not adequate, I am using one extension to multiple channels.
>
>  I am trying to create a single extension to multiple channels (lines) {exten => 5000,1,Dial(SIP\1234&SIP\phone&Local\12225551212)} but respecting busy on any channel is busy on the extension.  Almost the reverse of SLA, but with all the behavior of a single extension to a single channel  {exten => 5000,1,Dial(SIP\1234)}
>
>  Thanks for working with me to clarify.
>
>  Tony Plack
>
>
>  > I don't quite understand the use case, but it sounds like you may
>  > be trying to do shared line appearances
>  > (http://asterisk.org/node/48342). You seem to be alluding that you
>  > want multiple extensions to share the state of a single extension.
>  > If that is the case, then SLA isn't quite that. Also, Asterisk SLA
>  > doesn't support a notion of call appearance where a single
>  > extension can receive multiple calls.
>  >
>  > --
>  > Raj
>
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