Hello Jacob, hello all,

Jacob Tinning wrote:

We didn't like the timer-solution because we think its wrong to delay all calls
X seconds just because the SS7-asterisk doesn't know another Asterisk's 
dialplan.

Thats why I made it configurable, so that it can be turned off, when not needed. ;)

My suggestions is
 1. Use identical dialplans on the SS7-gateway and the SIP server
 2. Store the dialplan in a shared database.
 3. I think it is (maybe) posible to 'share' the dialplan through IAX (anybody 
?)

Your suggestions are reasonable if you know the dialplan. In my case it can be possible that I will forward a number block to a customer. I have not (and will not have) any knowledge of the length of the numbers the customer uses, I only know the base of the block, neither does the customer have to use an asterisk as termination.

Example:
I have a block +49-241-9909888 [0-99999]. I forward this block to a customer. This customer can add one to five digits to this block depending on his needs and I will never have knowledge of how many digits he uses.

As you see, if you want use chan_ss7 as a multi-customer SS7-to-SIP gateway with a national numbering plan without fixed length numbers (as in the US) there is no way around a timer. It's sad but true. ;)

And last but not least, I also had the problem that no ringback tones
were generated by asterisk. The following two lines in the dialplan
inserted before the Dial statement do the trick:


exten => _X.,n,SetLanguage(de)
exten => _X.,n,Playtones(ring)


We actually tried this, but we had to insert a ,1,Answer before the Playtones 
command.
...but the Answer before Playtones, breaks most telcos billing system,
since a call is 'from the Answer to a hangup'.

It works here without the answer as there is early-Media after receiving an IAM. This works also with MOH instead of the ringback beeps, what can be quite funny.

Best regards,
Kai

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