[asterisk-users] How to quickly move on to Dahdi channels when SIP provider fails?

[klitzing at pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de]

Hi!

> Why doesn't Asterisk take advantage of the qualify values to make sure
> if the SIP connection is up or not? Shouldn't this become a native
> feature of the PBX rather than trying to do work-around? 

Because Asterisk is a toolkit, not a ready-made PBX. This in fact gives you a lot more 
freedom to handle things the way you want to handle them. Besides, CHANISAVAIL() is 
really easy to use, takes less time than it took you to send your messags to this list. ;->

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+cmd+ChanIsAvail

Philipp