Re: [Asterisk-Users] Calls forwarding to numbers only in user's context

2006-03-09 Thread Johnathan Corgan
Bartosz Piec wrote: How to set calls forwarding only to numbers that are available in user's context (so if he has only locals calls he cannot set calls forwarding for mobile phones)? When the user sets the forwarding number, store the user's context in the DB along with the forwarding

Re: [Asterisk-Users] MixMonitor Problems -- sssshh, don't be too loud

2006-03-03 Thread Johnathan Corgan
Gary Richardson wrote: I'm running 1.2.4 and just about every call is cut short. I'm using Cisco IP phones as end points. All the outbound calls are routed via SIP through a PRI line attached to a Cisco 2811.. For me, all incoming/outgoing calls arrive/leave via IAX2/ilbc and all the local

Re: [Asterisk-Users] MixMonitor Problems -- sssshh, don't be too loud

2006-03-02 Thread Johnathan Corgan
Gary Richardson wrote: Now it seems that if I'm really loud on a call, MixMonitor stops recording. The wav file stops growing. The log says nothing. When you hang up the call, MixMonitor reports that it is exiting, even though it hasn't been recording since that loud noise. Has anyone

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Cheapest provider for Philippine route

2006-02-28 Thread Johnathan Corgan
Sam Tam wrote: Do anyone know who can provide some cheap PH routes/.’ I've been looking myself. Cheapest DIDs in Metro Manila I've seen are $27.50/month; cheapest termination to same (non-mobile) from US I've seen is $0.23/minute. Expensive chismis :-) -Johnathan

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: Asterisk Question

2006-02-28 Thread Johnathan Corgan
Michael Collins wrote: I had never sat down to write an AGI script before - I hadn't needed one - but I thought, How hard can it be? Ugh. The Asterisk::AGI module is very handy, and I highly recommend it. I've only written one AGI script in my life (up to now) but I've written 10's of

Re: [Asterisk-Users] courtesy message calling mobile phones

2006-02-27 Thread Johnathan Corgan
C F wrote: Can you explain this? What country? In this case it's not asterisk but the telco that has to do the Answer. To every mobile? or just that provider? I too have seen something similar in the past. When calling Verizon (408-489) numbers, when there is no answer and it rolls over to

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Problems with voicemail

2006-02-22 Thread Johnathan Corgan
Roger Lewau wrote: If the voicemailbox contains messages the voicemail application exits with a non-zero status either when reading the number of messages or when selecting 1 for listening to new messages. Is it possible the permissions for the sounds directory or individual files within have

Re: [Asterisk-Users] context being ignored by inbound sip call

2006-02-22 Thread Johnathan Corgan
btb wrote: [7508] ;ipkall type = peer dtmfmode = rfc2833 context = remote callerid = ipkall incoming 7508 nat = no You've configured this entry as a peer, which is for dialing out, versus as a user, which is for incoming calls. Solution is to change to 'type=user'. If you really need a

Re: [Asterisk-Users] is there a web interface to this mailing list?

2006-02-15 Thread Johnathan Corgan
Douglas Garstang wrote: Yes, programming the dialplan is akin to programming assembler. Too funny. But true. The first time I did a 'show dialplan' after trying out AEL, I felt like I was seeing an assembler dump of C++ :-) -Johnathan ___

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Working SPA 841s now return 404 Not Found for INVITES and OPTION packets from *

2006-02-11 Thread Johnathan Corgan
Andres wrote: There is no username in the above To header. Check your DIAL command because something is wrong here. Thats why you get a 404. The SPA can't match the username. Yes. I had not reverted to an early enough commit on the configuration files and the usernames were still missing

[Asterisk-Users] Working SPA 841s now return 404 Not Found for INVITES and OPTION packets from *

2006-02-10 Thread Johnathan Corgan
I don't know what's changed, but four SPA841s and a SPA3000 are no longer answering when they get an inbound call from *. This has been a working configuration for weeks. I *have* been fiddling with the server config; however, the configuration is under version control and I've reverted

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Limiting maximum runtime of echo test

2005-05-26 Thread Johnathan Corgan
Bastian Schern wrote: is it possible to limit the maximum runtime of the command echo? Use the AbsoluteTimeout application in your dialplan preceding the Echo application. http://voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk%20AbsoluteTimeout -Johnathan

[Asterisk-Users] Broadvoice delivers CID even when restricted?

2005-05-24 Thread Johnathan Corgan
I can call my Broadvoice DID from a outbound caller-id blocked phone, and BV happily delivers the CID to Asterisk (and then on to my IP phone display.) I've tested with the *67 prefix from a PSTN phone to make sure it was supposed to be blocked. The number is always correct, but sometimes

Re: [Asterisk-Users] RE: play gsm files in windows

2005-05-23 Thread Johnathan Corgan
If I run sox (on Linux), just specifying the input and output files by with the right extensions, it will convert a raw gsm file to a wav format file while retaining the gsm compression: sox vm-youhave.gsm vm-youhave.wav This is without any additional options. The output file is playable on

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Affecting overhead with Runlevel?

2005-05-21 Thread Johnathan Corgan
Robert Goodyear wrote: So: knowing that the X11 window GUI is a resource hog, is it appropriate to use the GUI to install and configure various components, then set RUNLEVEL to 3 once all is nicely set up and running cleanly? Would this give the same effect as doing a minimal install or is

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Affecting overhead with Runlevel?

2005-05-21 Thread Johnathan Corgan
Robert Goodyear wrote: Noted. To clarify, will dropping back to runlevel 3 still ensure a smaller set of processes that would be as non-intrusive as if I had installed Linux with console/command line support only or would there still be stuff hanging around that's inextricably there because I

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Outbound dialing issue with FXO

2005-05-20 Thread Johnathan Corgan
John Novack wrote: ...along with detection of stutter dial tone on analog lines. This would be somewhat useful. When there is stutter for whatever reason, outbound dialing must be delayed a couple seconds. Some times my PSTN line would roll-over to the telco voicemail before * would answer,

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Newbie on IVR

2005-05-20 Thread Johnathan Corgan
Mike-Olumide, Johnson wrote: I get fascinated when I dial someone and get an IVR play for accounts department press 1, for sales, press 2 or hold the line for an operator and then have MOH play before the line is picked up at the desired extesion. You'll find a simple example of how to

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Outbound dialing issue with FXO

2005-05-19 Thread Johnathan Corgan
Mike Clark wrote: However, outbound calls are hit or miss. Sometimes they work fine and other times we get a you must first dial a 1 or 0 message back from telco when dialing out standard POTS lines. Did you get this working yet? -Johnathan ___

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Outbound dialing issue with FXO

2005-05-18 Thread Johnathan Corgan
Mike Clark wrote: We are installing a number of systems with 2 TDM04B cards. Have done all the isolation to unique IRQs, etc. All inbound calls seem to work fine. However, outbound calls are hit or miss. Sometimes they work fine and other times we get a you must first dial a 1 or 0 message back

Re: [Asterisk-Users] SIP Gerenal settings conufsion

2005-05-16 Thread Johnathan Corgan
Jeffrey Starin wrote: Jonathan! You don't know how much that simple explanation has helped me understand Asterisk. Well done. Well said. And to the point clearly. I would hope this could find it's way onto the Asterisk Wiki and be the *first* thing someone reads when looking at the

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Broadvoice: No Service, No Email reply but charging the credit card still works

2005-05-16 Thread Johnathan Corgan
Ronald Wiplinger wrote: I cannot email them, I cannot call them, I do not get an answer, but the credit card is still charged, although NO phone calls are possible anymore, ... Hmm. I called them twice yesterday to ask questions, the queue wait was less than a minute in both cases. First time

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Home Usage

2005-05-16 Thread Johnathan Corgan
Kerry Garrison wrote: PSTN line 1 - Parent's line PSTN line 2 - Kids' line PSTN line 3 - Bussiness line VOIP Provider 1 - Broadvoice VOIP Provider 2 - VOIPJet A call into Line 1 answers For Kerry press 1, For Karen press 2 A call into Line 2 answers For Taylor press 1, For Chris press 2 A call

Re: [Asterisk-Users] SIP Gerenal settings conufsion

2005-05-15 Thread Johnathan Corgan
Jeffrey Starin wrote: I have a little confusion about the general settings (other than the register values) in the SIP General area. [snip] However, I'm confused as to the purpose of the general settings -- to what or which connection do they apply? Since the context suggested for the general

[Asterisk-Users] ITSPs with good phone support

2005-05-11 Thread Johnathan Corgan
With the recent service outage at Broadvoice, there has been a lot of discussion here, on broadband reports, Voxilla, etc., regarding whether VOIP is mature, or ready for the masses, etc. One particular point I've seen repeated, and with which I agree: we're willing to deal with less than five

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Who's happy with their voip service?

2005-05-06 Thread Johnathan Corgan
JD wrote: Inbound calling has been down for 2 days. Just FYI, mine is back up (408-903) as of about five hours ago. I did just speak with a (Broadvoice) support tech on an entirely unrelated matter (40 min. hold time!), mentioned mine was working, and he seemed to think things were coming back

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Light weight and slimmed Asterisk

2005-05-03 Thread Johnathan Corgan
Kumara Jayaweera wrote: Sorry for the numerous postings. but How could I slim my Asterisk PBX. Really I don't need such modules like Ex. chan_modem.so. Becouse, I don't have any special hardware. Please, could I hope your various suggetions in this regards. brief me your idea. See the Wiki under

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Multiple Servers and 1 Central Voicemail

2005-04-12 Thread Johnathan Corgan
Josiah Bryan wrote: Why not just NFS mount the /var/spool/asterisk/voicemail directory from a central server? That way, all servers share the same spool and the MWI will get reflected on all servers. Does * use any form of locking to maintain the integrity of the sequence number for voicemails

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Multiple Servers and 1 Central Voicemail

2005-04-12 Thread Johnathan Corgan
Jason Brown wrote: Trust me though, I promise, 1 central VM store does work and work well in an asterisk environment. But I haven't seen addressed the issue of two or more servers sharing this central VM store, when running the Voicemail application. Sure, MWI should have no problems in the

Re: [Asterisk-Users] BroadVoice Inbound Not working ..

2005-04-12 Thread Johnathan Corgan
Brian Watters wrote: Ok .. It appears we have outbound calls working well via our SIP trunk and BroadVoice .. However inbound just plain does not work, What happens is when you call our BroadVoice number it tells you the person you are calling is not available .. Never makes it to our Asterisk? ..

Re: [Asterisk-Users] broadvoice config problem.

2005-04-11 Thread Johnathan Corgan
Craig Simon wrote: Looking for 100 in from-broadvoice It looks like * is searching for extension 100 in the 'from-broadvoice' context, not finding it, and sending a 404 back. First, you can create a extension 100 in that context in your dialplan, then see if that allows the call to come

Re: [Asterisk-Users] broadvoice config problem.

2005-04-11 Thread Johnathan Corgan
Craig Simon wrote: The 100 is an extension I created for my softphone to log into. * is tricky with terminology. You didn't create an extension 100, you created a SIP peer/user named 100, which the softphone connects as. Extensions (that are within contexts) are lists of commands that * will

Re: [Asterisk-Users] broadvoice config problem.

2005-04-11 Thread Johnathan Corgan
Craig Simon wrote: Thank you, thank you, thank you! That was it! Thanks alot for the description, it made the call flow much easier to understand. You're welcome. I only discovered Asterisk about a month ago myself, and understand first hand how difficult it can be for the uninitiated.

Re: [Asterisk-Users] broadvoice

2005-04-04 Thread Johnathan Corgan
Dalon Westergreen wrote: BV allows unlimited incoming, and up to 3 outgoing. My understanding is that they intend to charge for more 3 outgoing, but have not done so at this time. This is good to hear--do you have anything from BV that documents this? Also, being relatively new to *, I don't know

Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP Provider problems

2005-04-02 Thread Johnathan Corgan
Bob Goddard wrote: The apparent packet loss you are seeing may be just fine tuning of the routers in question. This is the conclusion I came to as well; however, with the way PingPlotter works the router is not sending ICMP unreachables but rather ICMP TTL expired responses. In any case, the

Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP Provider problems

2005-04-02 Thread Johnathan Corgan
Rich Adamson wrote: In other words, as the ttl value is increased and additional icmps are sent, you might see what you believe is congestion, but you still don't have any clue as to whether hop #2, #5, or #10 actually was involved with that congestion. Sure. But there is a way around this. The

Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP Provider problems

2005-03-31 Thread Johnathan Corgan
Johnathan Corgan wrote: First off, I have Sprint Broadband Direct internet service, a fixed wireless setup with a 2-5 Mbps downlink and a terrible 128 kbps uplink. So I know I'm in for trouble anyway. The broadvoice edge router (63.251.209.126, their lax site) is another 11 hops away. One hop

Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP Provider problems

2005-03-31 Thread Johnathan Corgan
Joseph Gutowski wrote: I installed PingPlotter, switched to UDP just to be the same as you, and ran it against sip.broadvoice.com. Absolutley no problems, no packet loss at all. Well, that's good to hear. I then used the 63.251.209.126 that you posted, and it was awful (at least it appears awful).

Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP Provider problems

2005-03-30 Thread Johnathan Corgan
Robert Terzi wrote: The best tool I've found for monitoring connections, routes, congestion, is called PingPlotter. http://pingplotter.com/ It's a shareware visual traceroute. It continually graphs the traceroute style responses. There is a scrollable timeline to view how things change. You