Re: Asterisk Q.... re answering incoming PSTN line

["UKHA" <ukha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/02/2006 at 20:34 Kevin Hawkins wrote:

>OK, so I've taken the plunge , got asterisk@home up and running on
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>of those =A399 Dell servers and all seems well - no problems
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>in the install - and I have to sat Asterisk is one impressive piece
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>software. Using a Sipura 3000 - another fiendishly impressive piece
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>kit - this alone as a HA device has amazing potential ... haven't got
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>dialling out yet but ....a stupid Q.   (need to find an Asterisk group
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>guess as well)
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>An incoming call is answered by Asterisk and fed to the appropriate=20
>extensions while simulating ringing back to the caller. What I
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>(expected) to happen was that the call was not answered on the PSTN=20
>incoming line unless an extension picked it up - does/can it not
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>this way ??  I intended that voicemail would answer eventually but
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>for say 30 seconds.=20=20=20
>

Actually, you'll probably find that it's the sipura answering the call and
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then
passing it to Asterisk. There's a config option in the sipura to stop this
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from happening
- just looking for it for you. Also make sure you have the latest
firmware.=
..

Andy