Very nasty indeed. Through my experience with PRI, the TelCo switchs are not that present to deal with. Your method will work, kind of. However, if the TelCo decides to send you a call during that split second of idle, how are you going to handle it. The best way is still to call your TelCo to take the span down.
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Roy Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 3:54 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: [asterisk-users] How to "busy out" zap channels I know this topic came up many months back and some discussions were being had on how to do this within the Zaptel drivers. However, I'm looking for even a crude hack that someone has put together to get this done. We have PRI's and LD T1's that are load balanced on two boxes. The hunt order goes from box to box as far as the spans are concerned. There are times that I would like to busy one out so that calls gradually role to the new box and I can eventually take one out of service. What I was thinking is to create a script that I could tell the specific channels and it would go through and initiate zap calls to an empty meetme. Basically bridging all of the available zap channels on a given span together. Then the trick is monitoring the hangups so that it can initiate a subsequent call immediately following. Once all of the channels in a span have been bridged, I can then bring the box down. Nasty huh? Anyone have a better idea? Or do they have anything like this so I'm not putting it together? Thanks, -Brian
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