Brent Davidson wrote: > I have several branch offices all running Asterisk PBX's that register > to each other via SIP so that calls can be transferred from office to > office. Everything is working great on the office to office transfers, > but I'd like to somehow make the CallerID more useful. Currently if an > extension at Office1 dials an extension at Office2 the CID on the phone > at Office2 says "Office1". The same thing happens if a person at > Office1 transfers an incoming call to Office2. The caller ID at Office2 > always just says "Office1". > > What I would like to happen would be when Bob at Extension 12 at Office1 > calls Office2 the caller ID at office 2 would say "Bob" in the name > files and "12" in the number field. If Bob does a blind transfer to an > extension at Office2 I would like the caller ID on the Office2 phone to > display the original caller's name and number. > > I've read most of the documentation on the CallerID variables, but am > still having a bit of trouble wrapping my head around the necessary > logic to accomplish what I need to do, (mainly because I'm in the middle > of a totally unrelated project and am having trouble multi-tasking). > Could anyone give me a starting point? > > Thanks, > Brent
Check the entries for office1 and office2 servers in sip.conf. If they have a callerid= entry comment it out and do a SIP reload. When it is set asterisk overrides the caller ID sent to it. -Dave _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
