Okay, I was expecting something simple. When I got my PSTN service, they gave me a little card with the codes to forward my calls, something like *68 plus the number, which could be an extension or a foreign number. When you were done, you hit the same code again, I think, without the number, and it was canceled.
And in the case of the station where I’m most likely to want to do this, it’s an Northern Telecom analog desk phone using Dahdi, nothing fancy.
After a lot of rooting around, it seems that you’re supposed to be able to do this in Asterisk with
*72 #
and there are prompts. At least a number of messages here indicate problems with missing prompts. I get no prompts.
If I go ahead and enter the extension (ie, *721060#) without the prompts, Asterisk goes into an endless loop with 100% CPU:
-- Executing [*72@from-internal:8] GotoIf("DAHDI/1-1", "1?startread") in new stack
-- Goto (from-internal,*72,7)
-- Executing [*72@from-internal:7] Read("DAHDI/1-1", "toext,ent-target-attendant&then-press-pound,,,,") in new stack
The only way to recover is “service asterisk restart”.
Now what?
Oh, since I orginally asked, I switched to FreePBX 2.9.0beta2.1, and Module Administration shows I have Call Forward 2.9.0.1 enabled. When I check for updates it says that Recordings 3.3.11.2 is “Enabled and up to date”.
Van