[asterisk-users] How to quickly move on to Dahdi channels when SIP provider fails?

2010-12-08 Thread Bruce B
Hi Everyone, There are situations when internet connection is lost, SIP provider fails, or even authentication to SIP provider fails, and we want to use the backup Dahdi channels (PSTN). As simple as it may sound but with the many different situations and error messages it seems like it's not so

Re: [asterisk-users] How to quickly move on to Dahdi channels when SIP provider fails?

2010-12-08 Thread Olivier
2010/12/8 Bruce B bruceb...@gmail.com Hi Everyone, There are situations when internet connection is lost, SIP provider fails, What do you mean by SIP provider fails ? An outbound call returns CONGESTION though internet connection is up ? --

Re: [asterisk-users] How to quickly move on to Dahdi channels when SIP provider fails?

2010-12-08 Thread klitzing
Hi! There are situations when internet connection is lost, SIP provider fails, or even authentication to SIP provider fails, and we want to use the backup Dahdi channels (PSTN). As simple as it may sound but with the manydifferentsituations and error messages it seems like it's not so easy

Re: [asterisk-users] How to quickly move on to Dahdi channels when SIP provider fails?

2010-12-08 Thread Bruce B
Thanks for the input guys. I really appreciate all the input and I am sure they work but I thought there would be a much better way to do this. Sounds like patching things to me. Why doesn't Asterisk take advantage of the qualify values to make sure if the SIP connection is up or not? Shouldn't

Re: [asterisk-users] How to quickly move on to Dahdi channels when SIP provider fails?

2010-12-08 Thread Danny Nicholas
_ From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Bruce B Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 11:33 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] How to quickly move on to Dahdi

Re: [asterisk-users] How to quickly move on to Dahdi channels when SIP provider fails?

2010-12-08 Thread klitzing
Hi! Why doesn't Asterisk take advantage of the qualify values to make sure if the SIP connection is up or not? Shouldn't this become a native feature of the PBX rather than trying to do work-around? Because Asterisk is a toolkit, not a ready-made PBX. This in fact gives you a lot more

Re: [asterisk-users] How to quickly move on to Dahdi channels when SIP provider fails?

2010-12-08 Thread Warren Selby
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Tilghman Lesher tles...@digium.com wrote: On Wednesday 08 December 2010 11:33:10 Bruce B wrote: Thanks for the input guys. I really appreciate all the input and I am sure they work but I thought there would be a much better way to do this. Sounds like

Re: [asterisk-users] How to quickly move on to Dahdi channels when SIP provider fails?

2010-12-08 Thread William Stillwell
From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Warren Selby Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 4:11 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] How to quickly move on to Dahdi channels