asterisk users - Aug 2009 - Why do CDR dstchannel have a strange number after them? IAX2/XXXX-????

Hi all

I am just confused as to why Asterisk appends a strange number after the
Channel and Extension number. This moght be obvious to some people but I
have no idea why??

Eg:  IAX2/100-9123

Where does the -9123 come from?? and can I ditch it? I have made a work
around to substring it out using SQL for when doing logs, but I would like
to know what it is and if I can remove it.

(I am using mySQL to store logs direct from asterisk)

Thanks
David

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Mr. David Anthony O'Reilly, M.Sc, B.Sc

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M.Sc MOB Postgraduate @ University College Cork - M.Sc (Mobile Networking
and Computing) - 2009

Computer Science Graduate of The University of Dublin, Trinity College -
B.Sc (Computer Science) 2008

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On Wednesday 12 August 2009 11:21:02 D?ibh?ad Antoine O'Reilligh
wrote:
> I am just confused as to why Asterisk appends a strange number after the
> Channel and Extension number. This moght be obvious to some people but I
> have no idea why??
>
> Eg:  IAX2/100-9123
>
> Where does the -9123 come from?? and can I ditch it? I have made a work
> around to substring it out using SQL for when doing logs, but I would like
> to know what it is and if I can remove it.
It's a special field created to ensure that if there is more than one
concurrent call to/from a user/peer, then the channel name uniquely
identifies a channel.  Its removal is not recommended (and unsupported).

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