<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'>I'm sure you have greater control over max calls with H323, but with MGCP I don't think there's any options.<br><br>In the PRI world, there's the concepts of route groups as well. You can define a route group to have a max of X calls and then assign those DIDs to that route group that. Changes and route groups are typically chargeable items on your PRI service. There might be a minimum number of DIDs per route group as well. Not sure about that.<br><br>That's how I would approach this request.<br><span><br><span name="x"></span>---<br>Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A.<br>Senior Analyst (CCS) * University of Guelph * Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1<br>(519) 824-4120 x56354 (519) 767-1060 FAX (ANNU)<br>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^<br>Cooking with unix is easy. You just sed it and forget it. <br> - LFJ (with apologies to Mr. Popeil)<br><span name="x"></span><br></span><br><hr id="zwchr"><b>From: </b>"Tim Reimers" <treimers@ashevillenc.gov><br><b>To: </b>cisco-voip@puck.nether.net<br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, October 23, 2012 2:52:02 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>[cisco-voip] Adding DIDs to a PRI - and how to limit total calls to those DID numbers.<br><br><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Hi everyone –</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">I’ve been asked a question that I don’t know if I’ve heard before –</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">I have two existing PRI circuits, built as a single trunk group, with about 1000 DID numbers on them, used for voice calls.</p><p class="MsoNormal">(for sake of mentioning it, the PRIs arrive on two different routers, and all the DIDs are reachable inbound on either one)</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Someone wants to add more DIDs for the purpose of faxing, with those DIDs being dedicated for fax usage, not for voice calls.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">But they want to limit the total number of calls that will be allowed to come in, so that we don’t ‘eat’ all 47 channels with attempted inbound faxes.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">How would I limit the allowable calls coming in to the DIDs 1500-1700 and 2100-2300 ?</p><p class="MsoNormal">(assuming 4-digit delivery from the telco)</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">One factor that might do it is that the session-target device mentioned below</p><p class="MsoNormal">only has two active channels – </p><p class="MsoNormal">Would that have the effect of stopping the 3<sup>rd</sup>, 4<sup>th</sup>, etc call and sending them back to the carrier</p><p class="MsoNormal">with a busy signal? </p><p class="MsoNormal">I don’t want a re-order tone – just busy.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Or would I use the ‘max-conn’ option as shown below under the dial-peer to ensure that</p><p class="MsoNormal">no more calls can come in?</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">I think my dial peers would look like this:</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">dial-peer voice 1000 voip</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">description Inbound faxes</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">destination-pattern 1[5-7]..</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:red">max-conn 2</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">session target ipv4:192.168.200.17</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">session transport udp</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">dtmf-relay h245-signal</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">codec g711ulaw</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">fax rate 14400</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">fax protocol t38 ls-redundancy 5 hs-redundancy 2 fallback none</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">no vad</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">dial-peer voice 1000 voip</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">description Inbound faxes</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">destination-pattern 2[1-3]..</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:red">max-conn 2</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">session target ipv4:192.168.200.17</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">session transport udp</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">dtmf-relay h245-signal</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">codec g711ulaw</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">fax rate 14400</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">fax protocol t38 ls-redundancy 5 hs-redundancy 2 fallback none</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">no vad</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>cisco-voip mailing list<br>cisco-voip@puck.nether.net<br>https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip<br></div></body></html>