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Summary:ASTERISK-02327: TDM400P modules do not recognize lack of cable/dial tone
Reporter:Matt Riddell (zx81)Labels:
Date Opened:2004-09-02 14:00:53Date Closed:2008-01-15 15:06:34.000-0600
Priority:MajorRegression?No
Status:Closed/CompleteComponents:Core/NewFeature
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Description:Aparrently there is no way to tell if the RJ plug is dead / uplugged /
eaten by weasels.

This can be a problem as follows:

Card 1 Module 1: FXO [Channel #1]
Card 1 Module 2: FXO [Channel #2]
Card 1 Module 3: FXO [Channel #3]
Card 1 Module 4: FXO [Channel #4]
Card 2 Module 1: FXO [Channel ASTERISK-1]
Card 2 Module 2: FXO [Channel ASTERISK-2]
Card 2 Module 3: FXO [Channel ASTERISK-3]
Card 2 Module 4: FXO [Channel ASTERISK-4]
Card 3 Module 1: FXO [Channel ASTERISK-5]
Card 3 Module 2: FXO [Channel ASTERISK-6]
Card 3 Module 3: FXO [Channel ASTERISK-7]
Card 3 Module 4: FXO [Channel ASTERISK-8]

relevant zapata.conf
group=1
channel=1-12

relevant extensions.conf
exten => _9.,1,Dial(Zap/g1/${EXTEN:1})

Say for example Card 1 Module 1 connection is down (ie dead/uplugged cable
etc).  If you then try to dial a number, the call will not go through
(even though you have 11 available lines).  If you did the same with a
group of X100P's, the first one wouldn't be used if it wasn't plugged in.

Even if there was a way of promoting a Red Alarm from the module to
the card...this would be far from ideal as it would be much more
preferable to be able to still use the other 3 modules on the card.

I have raised and confirmed this with: Digium Tech Support, Asterisk-
users, Asterisk irc channel.

Should I file a bug report for this? Is there a simple hack I could
do (i.e. check for dialtone before dialing...)

Actually on that one didn't someone want to receive MWI (stutter tone for
messages) on incoming lines not long ago?

Is there a possibility that we could listen/analyse the dial tone
before dialing?

Cristian Victor just said:
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What about putting all the channels in a group (1 for example) and
use Zap/r1/number to dial. This wil use round robin to pick a
different channel on every dial attempt.

So if there is a dead line some calls will miss but with 12 lines
11/12 of all calls will go through.
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This will be a good quick fix for getting it working, but still 1 out of
every 12 calls will fail.

Comments:By: Mark Spencer (markster) 2004-09-02 15:04:33

Fixed in CVS.  Hope this doesn't introduce any issues with anyone's oddball channel banks.
By: Digium Subversion (svnbot) 2008-01-15 15:06:34.000-0600

Repository: asterisk
Revision: 3712

U   trunk/channels/chan_zap.c

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r3712 | markster | 2008-01-15 15:06:34 -0600 (Tue, 15 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

Don't use FXO's with no battery (bug ASTERISK-2327)

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http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk?view=rev&revision=3712