asterisk users - Jun 2006 - Call limit function on sip channel to external pop

Hi,

We've been using asterisk as our main telephone-communications platform
for years now, and we wrote several extra scripts and features for it.
Now we 're looking for a solution to limit the number of channels going
to an external SIP provider.
We recently upgraded our system from asterisk 1.0 to 1.2(.9 now) to be
able to use such features, but nothing helped...
When we configure a new channel, it seems to work, but putting the
call_limit on an existing sip channel going out, it doesn't do anything.

Anyone already had such an issue, or anyone knowing the best config for
limiting outgoing sip channels to external sip providers?

It's kind of urgent...

Thanks in advance, and keep up the good work!

Bram

On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 09:20 +0200, bram kortleven wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We've been using asterisk as our main telephone-communications platform
> for years now, and we wrote several extra scripts and features for it.
> Now we 're looking for a solution to limit the number of channels going
> to an external SIP provider.
> We recently upgraded our system from asterisk 1.0 to 1.2(.9 now) to be
> able to use such features, but nothing helped...
> When we configure a new channel, it seems to work, but putting the
> call_limit on an existing sip channel going out, it doesn't do
anything.
> 
> Anyone already had such an issue, or anyone knowing the best config for
> limiting outgoing sip channels to external sip providers?
Previous answers to similar questions usually point to:
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+cmd+SetGroup

Regards,
Patrick

At 12:20 AM 6/20/2006, you wrote:
>Anyone already had such an issue, or anyone knowing the best config for
>limiting outgoing sip channels to external sip providers?
>
>It's kind of urgent...
I did that using groups in the dialplan. There's an example under 
group at the wiki I did that might help.

Ira

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+func+group