[Asterisk-Users] oh323 dial structure and oh323 debug?

[Chris A. Icide]

According to the wiki at voip-info.org, the dial structure for using oh323 without a gatekeeper is:

 OH323/<exten>@<host>:<port>
or
 OH323/<exten>

The second option is valid only in the case where a gatekeeper is used.
NOTE: OpenH323 library v1.12.0 has a bug in the parsing of the destination
host. When this version is used then the above syntax should be:

 OH323/h323:<exten>@<host>:<port>


Now, I've got a '*' box that has oh323 running, and it accepts inbound h323 calls and processes them perfectly (well, not perfectly, but thats because they are coming in with g729 and going out as gsm, and we don't have our g729 licenses from digium yet), and now that this is working as expected, I've been asked to pass any calls with prefix 572 back out to another h323 gateway.  Simple enough, in the dial plan I just matched _572. and tried sending it out to the other h323 gateway (not an asterisk platform).  This is where the problem is.

I can't seem to get the system to send the extension along no matter what form I try.  And to worsen this the oh323 debug toggle CLI command does nothing (I haven't checked if I need to go back and compile a debug flag into oh323 yet).  I've tried the following in the way of dial commands:

First, Dial(OH323/<gw-ip-addy>) works in that I actually contact the remote gw and it gives me a bad user message '-- H.323 call 'ip$localhost/6740' cleared, reason 24 (Call ended with Q.931 cause)
', so I know I'm getting to the right gw.

Dial(OH323/${EXTEN:3}@<gw-ip-addy>) doesn't work, we don't seem to parse the <exten>@<ip-addy> and just try to reach the whole argument as an address, error is '-- H.323 call 'ip$localhost/6738' cleared, reason 11 (Gatekeeper could not find user)'

Dial(OH323/h323:${EXTEN:3}@<gw-ip-addy>)   (yes, pulling at straws here because I'm running 1.13.5 lib), also doesn't work... ' -- H.323 call 'ip$localhost/6737' cleared, reason 11 (Gatekeeper could not find user)'

I've also tried mixing and matching the exten and ip-addy all around to no avail.  Can someone point out the right format of the Dial command for oh323 when routing a call with a dialed extension to gateway with a known ip-address.  No gatekeepers involved at all.

-Chris