If you are using Digium cards, then I suggest you take this up with Digium support.
On 4/3/06, Edwin Groothuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > Our telco called last week, saying that a lot of channels on our > PRIs are blocked. And with blocked they have the following description > in the Siemens exchanges: > > > BBAC BLOCKED BACKWARD > This status is set when the partner exchange has > a blocking set and the signaling of the trunk > (non-CCS7) is able to report this blocking in > the backward direction. This status can remain > a long time. Other usages of this status are the > DCMS specific blockings: "DCMS Out of Service", > "Pilot Alarm" or "Analog Carrier Failure". > This status may also be set for a short time when > performing DIU tests. In that case it prevents > outgoing seizures. > > > BBAC BLOCKED BACKWARD > The GP reports the subscriber port with BBAC if a > subscriber goes off-hook and does not dial or if a > subscriber does not go off-hook during a set-up > connenction. After further three minutes the status of > this port is changed to BPRM. > > > BPRM BLOCKED PERMANENT > When a blocking is set in the partner exchange, > but the signaling of the trunk (non-CCS7) is not > able to report this blocking, the trunk will be > idle in the own exchange. When an outgoing seizure > is generated on such a trunk, this seizure > will remain without answer and the release will > be unsuccessful. In that case, this status will > be set. > > > He gave me a list of all blocked channels (1 to 5 was normal busy, > 6 to 20 was idle and 21 to 31 were blocked). I ran a "zap show > channel zap/" on them, but couldn't find anything in the output > which made me go "All idle/busy channels have this, and all blocked > ones have that". > > When asterisk is trying to call out via one of these blocked channels, > it returns the dreaded CONGESTION status. > > Of course, reloading the (TE405/TE410) card drivers and zaptel > drivers unlocked everything, but nothing in the asterisk CLI did > the same. > > > I'm very confused about this one, and am stuck with it for some > time now. If anybody has an idea on what to do (except filing a bug > with Digium) or a hint what I could/should try, let me know! > > > Edwin > > -- > Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Weblog: http://weblog.barnet.com.au/edwin/ > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
