asterisk users - Sep 2003 - '.' pattern and non-SIP phones

Using FWD and accessing it via this extension:

exten => _*8.,1,Dial(SIP/${EXTEN:2}@fwd.pulver.com)

This works *perfectly* with SIP phones.  However with a regular phone 
plugged into an FXS card (PhoneJack PCI in my case) the '.' traps the
first
number dialled after *8 and tries calling that.  I've tried setting a digit 
timeout but it doesn't seem to help.

Changing that to 

exten => _*8XXXXX,1,Dial(SIP/${EXTEN:2}@fwd.pulver.com)

works, but is hardly optimal, since I plan on changing my dialplan to allow 
varied-length numbers for other things.

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards,
Andrew

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:
> Using FWD and accessing it via this extension:
> 
> exten => _*8.,1,Dial(SIP/${EXTEN:2}@fwd.pulver.com)
> 
> This works *perfectly* with SIP phones.  However with a regular phone 
> plugged into an FXS card (PhoneJack PCI in my case) the '.' traps
the first
> number dialled after *8 and tries calling that.  I've tried setting a
digit
> timeout but it doesn't seem to help.
> 
> Changing that to 
> 
> exten => _*8XXXXX,1,Dial(SIP/${EXTEN:2}@fwd.pulver.com)
> 
> works, but is hardly optimal, since I plan on changing my dialplan to allow
> varied-length numbers for other things.
> 
I can't explain it without looking at the code, and I'm short on time so
I
won't go there but the way that works best for me is:
exten => _*8X.,1,Dial(SIP/${EXTEN:2}@fwd.pulver.com)

James