asterisk users - May 2014 - Channel names

Hi

I'm using asterisk 1.8.

How are channel names constructed. I always thought they were

<technology>/<peer>-<hex counter>

but I've had a lot of instances where a channel name doesn't have the
correct peer as part of it.

Is it unwise to use channel names to extract the peers involved in a call?

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On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 7:17 AM, Ishfaq Malik <ish at pack-net.co.uk>
wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm using asterisk 1.8.
>
> How are channel names constructed. I always thought they were
>
> <technology>/<peer>-<hex counter>
>
> but I've had a lot of instances where a channel name doesn't have
the
> correct peer as part of it.
>
> Is it unwise to use channel names to extract the peers involved in a call?
>
>
>
How a channel is named is a function of the channel technology. Which
channel technology(ies) are you curious about?

Matt


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