Syed,
I'd like to help you out but I'm a bit confused. Based on the lack of
replies to your message, I think some other people might be confused
too.
I don't know if I have all the answers, but maybe I can help to
clarify the problem a bit.
On 10/4/06, Syed Zia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello folks, I would appreciate if somebody can help me with some basic dial
plan issues I have. Please be addvised that I am a newbie to asterisk..
I have these voxbone DID's, The way I m using these DID's now that I forward
it to an extension (e.g: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) where 192.168.1.1 is my asterisk
box, then I have a dial plan for each extension which dials to a pst number
through a trunk I am using.
So let me get this right, you have a service from Voxbone that allows
people to dial a 416 PSTN number (4161111111) and this delivers the
call to your system. Now what? You want to send the call back out to
the PSTN? It sounds like you want to take an incoming call from your
4161111111 DID and then make an outgoing call to a cel phone (for
example) at 4162222222. Is that what you want?
_OR_
When you say you want a separate dial plan, do you want to give an
autoattendant then direct the call to an internal extension?
E.g: exten
Exten => 300,1,Answer()
exten => 300,2,Wait(2)
exten => 300,3,NoOp(${CALLERID})
exten => 300,4,Dial(SIP/[EMAIL PROTECTED])
exten => 300,5,Hangup()
That looks pretty close to the cel phone example that I describe
above, you're on the right track if that's what you want. If you want
the incoming calls from a DID to execute this then juse replace the
'300' with '4161111111' where 4161111111 is the DID number from
voxbone. That's normally the way these things work but I'll say I
have no experience with voxbone specifically.
What I really want is that I want to map the actual PSTN number in the sip
URI for each DID (e,g: [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Then I want to write a
dialplan in my asterisk box which should terminate all these calls through
this trunk 202.202.202.202
I'm completely confused about what you're asking for here. I can't
understand what you mean when say you want to terminate a DID through
a trunk. Is this the same thing described above? When you say map,
do you mean you want to capture it in a variable?
I was thinking to do this and wanted you guys to validate it:
In my extension.conf
[globals]
;define trunck as global variable
Trunka=192.168.1.1
prefix=12345
[Voxbone context]
Any call which starts with 1416,1=> Answer()
1416,2=> Dial(${TrunkA})
I believe this will work but I have 2 questions:
1. How am I suppose to tell the asterisk that all calls received form this
context should be terminated by this truck. Is my dialplan is correct? Can
somebody write me the right syntax?
Sorry, you'll have to reword that for me. I think you play around
with the dialplan a little bit and just get the nature of extensions
and contexts clear in your mind. It's an important concept and it
helps to set up a couple of phones and make some calls between them
and play around with things to see how it all interacts.
2.The trunk which I am using requires me to use prefix before dialing any
number.. E.g.: [EMAIL PROTECTED], So how am I suppose to set
the prefix in a variable so I don't need to hard code it in all the uri's?
If you have a prefix and a suffix for your trunk, just setup 2
variables in the general section like:
TrunkPrefixA = 1234
TrunkSuffixA = @202.202.202.202
Then in an extension, you can use a dial statement like
dial(sip/${TrunkPrefixA}${EXTEN}${TrunkSuffixA})
Take a look at the wiki, (www.voip-info.org) and specifically at
asterisk variables, the dial command etc and see if that gives you any
ideas. If we can help further, post more questions and we'll see what
we can do.
Dave
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David Donovan
Consultant
Fulcrum Solutions
