Digium TE122 chanelization

I am new to free pbx but I am knowledgeable with telephony, VoIP and linux/
Free PBX version 2.801
Astesisk version 1.70
Built with Asterisk Now

I have the TE122 installed and is working properly for my DID’s.

I have a chanelized T1 where chan 1-12 are incomming DID only and chan 13-24 are FXS for outgoing.

Using the free Pbx gui under dahdi I can program chans 1-12 for e&m wink, But unsure how to program chan 13-24

Do I need to edit the dahdi.conf file? any help appreciated

Dan

Your question makes me doubt that your understanding of a T1 is complete.

All of the “lines” in a T1 are bidirectional and all should use E&M Wink to notify the phone company of an impending outgoing call or that a call has been terminated.

If it was me, I’d set the lines up so that you dialed channel 24 first, then 23, then 22, then 21, etc. That way, your 12 incoming lines won’t be busy.

In general, I’d suggest setting the line up in one span with two groups. The first group would be channels 1 through 12 and the second group would be channels 13 through 24. After that, you can associate your outgoing trunks with the second group (followed by the first group, if all 12 of those lines get busy) and your incoming trunks can be associated with the first group.

So, group 1 will have a parameter that looks like “fxoks=1-12” and “fxsks=13-24” in the second group.

The webpage “http://www.cadvision.com/blanchas/Asterisk/ConfiguringT1LineDahdi.html” has an excellent discussion of what your options are and how to configure a fairly complicated T1 setup like yours.

I did an interesting T1 config on a four port Digium card the other day. I’ll post what my config files look like and perhaps you can interpolate what you need to do for your system. Bare in mind, this is the most complicated T1 configuration I have done to date and I worked with Digium tech support to get it to work. I think an important point is that you need to configure system.conf correctly first, then run dahdi_cfg -vvv. I am not so sure the dahdi gui bit is up to complicated configurations.

/etc/dahdi/system.conf

Global data

loadzone = us
defaultzone = us

span=1,1,0,esf,b8zs
e&m=1-12
fxsks=13-24
echocanceller=mg2,1-24

span=2,0,0,esf,b8zs
fxoks=25-48
echocanceller=mg2,25-48

span=3,0,0,esf,b8zs
fxoks=49-72
echocanceller=mg2,49-72

span=4,0,0,esf,b8zs
fxoks=73-96
echocanceller=mg2,73-96

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/etc/asterisk/chan_dahdi.conf
[trunkgroups]

[channels]
language=en

#include dahdi-channels.conf

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/etc/asterisk/dahdi-channels.conf
group=0
signalling=em_w
context=from-pstn
usecallerid=yes
echocancel=yes
channel=1-6

group=1
signalling=em_w
context=from-pstn
usecallerid=yes
echocancel=yes
channel=7-8

group=2
signalling=em_w
context=from-internal
usecallerid=yes
echocancel=yes
channel=9-12

group=3
signalling=fxs_ks
context=from-pstn
usecallerid=yes
echocancel=yes
channel=13-24

group=4
signalling=fxo_ks
context=from-internal
usecallerid=yes
echocancel=yes
channel=25-96

; include dahdi extensions defined in FreePBX
#include chan_dahdi_additional.conf

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[root@localhost ~]# asterisk -rx "dahdi show channels"
Chan Extension Context Language MOH Interpret Blocked State
pseudo default default In Service
1 from-pstn en default In Service
2 from-pstn en default In Service
3 from-pstn en default In Service
4 from-pstn en default In Service
5 from-pstn en default In Service
6 from-pstn en default In Service
7 from-pstn en default In Service
8 from-pstn en default In Service
9 from-internal en default In Service
10 from-internal en default In Service
11 from-internal en default In Service
12 from-internal en default In Service
13 from-pstn en default In Service
14 from-pstn en default In Service
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23 from-pstn en default In Service
24 from-pstn en default In Service
25 from-internal en default In Service
26 from-internal en default In Service
27 from-internal en default In Service
28 from-internal en default In Service
29 from-internal en default In Service
30 from-internal en default In Service
31 from-internal en default In Service
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49 from-internal en default In Service
50 from-internal en default In Service
51 from-internal en default In Service
52 from-internal en default In Service
53 from-internal en default In Service
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55 from-internal en default In Service
56 from-internal en default In Service
57 from-internal en default In Service
58 from-internal en default In Service
59 from-internal en default In Service
60 from-internal en default In Service
61 from-internal en default In Service
62 from-internal en default In Service
63 from-internal en default In Service
64 from-internal en default In Service
65 from-internal en default In Service
66 from-internal en default In Service
67 from-internal en default In Service
68 from-internal en default In Service
69 from-internal en default In Service
70 from-internal en default In Service
71 from-internal en default In Service
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73 from-internal en default In Service
74 from-internal en default In Service
75 from-internal en default In Service
76 from-internal en default In Service
77 from-internal en default In Service
78 from-internal en default In Service
79 from-internal en default In Service
80 from-internal en default In Service
81 from-internal en default In Service
82 from-internal en default In Service
83 from-internal en default In Service
84 from-internal en default In Service
85 from-internal en default In Service
86 from-internal en default In Service
87 from-internal en default In Service
88 from-internal en default In Service
89 from-internal en default In Service
90 from-internal en default In Service
91 from-internal en default In Service
92 from-internal en default In Service
93 from-internal en default In Service
94 from-internal en default In Service
95 from-internal en default In Service
96 from-internal en default In Service

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