[cisco-voip] VIC-2FXO doesn't want to call - solved

[Alfredo Sola]

	Hi,

	I've been banging my head against empty space! To be exact, against an empty
port. In the darkness of the room where the router is, I just assumed that
port 0 is the leftmost port in the VIC. It is not; leftmost is port 1.

	I discovered it when out of desesperation, I started over. Why hadn't I
checked this before? Because, if you remember the error message when I tried
to have the VIC place a test call:

v1#csim start 902011990
csim: called number = 902011990, loop count = 1 ping count = 0

csim err:csim_do_test invalid major major(16) minor(0)
csim: loop = 1, failed = 0
csim: call attempted = 1, setup failed = 0, tone failed = 0

	It does say "tone failed = 0" which, I think most people will agree, means
that tone didn't fail! Now this is number two (only after the infamous
"wildcard bits", i.e., the reversed way in which ACLs are specified) the most
weird thing I have seen in Cisco-land.

	Why, oh why, can't the blessed thing simply say "No dial tone detected"? And
if such weirdness is here to stay, then why, oh why, can't the output
interpreter decode that one and say in plain English: Look at your cables,
because that error means no dial tone?

	Thanks for reading my rant, and thanks everyone for your suggestions.

-- 
Alfredo Sola
http://alfredo.sola.nu/
ASP5-RIPE