asterisk users - Jan 2008 - When does Asterisk "REFER"?

I was wondering under what conditions Asterisk will hand off a call to 
another switch.

I'm trying to verify that my local PSTN's Coppercom switch operates 
correctly...  and wanted to know how to get a call REFER'd to another 
end-point.

Thanks,

-Philip

Philip Prindeville wrote:
> I'm trying to verify that my local PSTN's Coppercom switch operates
> correctly...  and wanted to know how to get a call REFER'd to another 
> end-point.
I don't think Asterisk will ever generate a REFER, but the only possible
way it could would be using the Transfer() application in the dialplan.

-- 
Kevin P. Fleming
Director of Software Technologies
Digium, Inc. - "The Genuine Asterisk Experience" (TM)

----- Original Message ----
> From: Philip Prindeville <philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com>
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
<asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, 29 January, 2008 7:11:01 PM
> Subject: [asterisk-users] When does Asterisk "REFER"?
> 
> I was wondering under what conditions Asterisk will hand off a call to 
> another switch.
> 
> I'm trying to verify that my local PSTN's Coppercom switch operates
> correctly...  and wanted to know how to get a call REFER'd to another 
> end-point.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Philip
> 
 
Hi Philip,

You can use the transfer command in your dial plan apart from that I don't
know of any case when Asterisk would initiate a REFER. Generally Asterisk is the
one handling the REFER's in reponse to user's transfer requests.

Regards,

Aaron



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