Hi, Was under the impression from the tool-tip in trunks for the field ‘Maximum Channels’ the number entered would limit the inbound calls using the context from-trunk-trunk-name in Trunk Sip Settings. Currently the Maximum Channels is set to 5 but as shown below, its not working. CLI> core show …

Did you change the context= setting to that context?

try core show channels verbose , Asterisk is a B2BUA so all calls will have at least an A and a B channel,so 9 ‘active calls’ will probably have less than your ‘maximum channel’ count

Controls the maximum number of outbound channels (simultaneous calls) that can be used on this trunk. Inbound calls are not counted against the maximum. Leave blank to specify no maximum. Emphasis added. The max channels field in the trunk config is only to limit outbound channels, and the limit…

It was set already to context=from-trunk-sip-trunkname

And it is the only inbound trunk? There arent other trunks accepting inbound calls?

Then we need to see debugs of inbound calls not being counted.

Hi Dicko, core show channels indicated 9 active calls. Queue show queue# showed 8 calls holding and one active call. But the max channels is set to 5. For now I have limited max callers in queue but will have to fix the failover to be more gentle than it is right now. I thought (incorrectly?) max…

[image] Hawkeye: CLI> core show channels 11 active channels 9 active calls Are there things like voicemail or other features being used. Because 9 calls and 11 active channels is sounding more like 2 two channel calls and 7 one channel calls.

Inbound route => queue. Failover => hangup Got to change that hangup… to abrupt. No voicemail or other goodies.

Limiting inbound (origination) calls

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