[asterisk-users] Monitoring second leg being dialed?

[Eric Wieling]

It does on PRI.

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From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Gilles
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 7:32 PM
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Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Monitoring second leg being dialed?

On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:54:48 -0500, "Kevin P. Fleming"
<kpfleming at digium.com> wrote:
>This is true, but you already answered your own question in your 
>original post: since Asterisk cannot know whether the called party 
>(dialing out via an FXO port) has answered or not, it assumes the 
>outgoing call is 'answered' as soon as dialing has been completed.
>Because of this, the calling channel is bridged to the called channel 
>as soon as dialing has been completed, and the calling party will hear 
>the progress of the outbound call.

Thanks for the confirmation. Too bad Dahdi doesn't provide call supervision so that Asterisk knows if/when the callee has answered.
I'll experiment and see how it goes.


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