You could use GROUP & GROUP_COUNT to track how many channels you are using before you attempt to dial out and send back a Busy/Congestion/Whatever to your endpoint when you are at your limit.
On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 4:33 PM Andrew Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am running Asterisk 11.17 with DAHDI 2.9.0 and an OpenVox A800P with 8x > analog > POTS lines coming into my Asterisk server from the phone company. > Internally, I > have about 180 SIP clients defined in sip.conf. What appears to be > happening is > that if existing calls are consuming all 8 external lines and a new SIP > client > attempts to make a call, an existing call gets dropped. The asterisk log > simply > shows this as a normal hangup, so I am not able to easily distinguish > between a > normal hangup and this type of dropped call. In testing, I am able to get > a new > SIP client to report "service unavailable" when all 8 lines are consumed, > yet > still drops are reported. > > I have been unable to find any configuration settings pertaining to > prioritizing > existing calls over new calls. What else can I look for to attempt to > debug and > fix this so that existing calls are not dropped? > > Thanks, > > Andrew > > -- > _____________________________________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > Astricon is coming up October 9-11! Signup is available at: > https://www.asterisk.org/community/astricon-user-conference > > Check out the new Asterisk community forum at: > https://community.asterisk.org/ > > New to Asterisk? Start here: > https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Getting+Started > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. ---Heinlein
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