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<div>Thank you once again Richard. I think that covers all my confusion.</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Richard Mudgett <<a href="mailto:rmudgett@digium.com">rmudgett@digium.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span>Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion <<a href="mailto:asterisk-users@lists.digium.com">asterisk-users@lists.digium.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Tuesday, 9 December 2014 21:48<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion <<a href="mailto:asterisk-users@lists.digium.com">asterisk-users@lists.digium.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [asterisk-users] Bridge configuration in Asterisk 13 [Spam score:8%] [Spam score:8%]<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Patrick Beaumont <span dir="ltr">
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<p>Thanks Richard. This is exactly the answer I was looking for.<br>
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<p>I'm now assuming that Asterisk 11 was using it's equivalent "bridge_simple" but I was getting confused because the only bridge module I saw in modules.conf was bridge_softmix. When I upgraded to Asterisk13 that would have been the only bridge getting loaded
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<p>Is it expected that if bridge_softmix handled a normal two party call then MOH would no longer function?<br>
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<div>That is correct. bridge_softmix is optimized for multi-party conferencing where passing<br>
control frames such as hold/unhold to other parties in the bridge is not a good idea. For<br>
example, if three parties are in a bridge and if party A pressed its hold button then that<br>
should not necessarily prevent parties B and C from talking to each other. Using<br>
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<div>bridge_softmix for a normal two party call is a last resort. It works reasonably well as a<br>
normal two party bridge technology but it is computationally expensive and not intended<br>
for that purpose.<br>
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