esojmc
join:2002-07-08
Naperville, IL
| TrixBox: How to prevent certain extensions from dialing 911
I posted this in the TB forum but no answer so I am posting it here:
I have several extensions that log into my TB from outside (another country) and I want to make sure they can't accidentally dial 911. Is this possible?
Also, I want to restrict some extensions from dialing out to PSTN. The way I have it setup now, anyone can dial a number and go out over my SIP provider to PSTN. Is this also possible?
Thanks. |
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tommy13v
Premium
join:2002-02-15
Glenville NY
 ·ViaTalk
| You need to assign them to different contexts. There is an add on called custom-contexts I believe that would do what you want.
»aussievoip.com/wiki/freePBX-CustomContexts |
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VoIPdevotee
| reply to esojmc
I'll second what tommy13v posted, but with one caveat: The Custom Contexts module is GREAT and solves a lot of problems, and provides functionality that people have wanted for ages. It's one of four add-on modules developed by the same guy (who went by naftali5 on the #freepbx IRC channel).
The downside: This isn't the simplest module to figure out the first time you use it, so consider asking for help on the IRC channel if you get stuck. And, it is NOT SUPPORTED but the current FreePBX development team. This means that at some point it may become incompatible with a newer version of FreePBX. I heard that another one of naftali5's modules (called Dialplan Injections) may be incompatible with FreePBX 2.3.
There's actually a bit of a backstory to this. As I say, people have wanted the functionality that Custom Contexts offers for a very long time. However the current FreePBX development team had been thinking that people might be willing to pay for that sort of functionality (under the erroneous assumption that a home user would never want to restrict certain kinds of calls from certain extensions, like maybe phones in kids' bedrooms), so they had planned to develop something like this someday, and maybe charge for that module.
When naftali5 developed the module the FreePBX devs got a bit of an attitude about it, which they eventually got over, but not before naftali5 got a bit disgusted with them (at least that's how it appeared to this observer). So, he dropped out of the channel and now the modules aren't being upgraded. Don't know if he will ever come back and start upgrading them again. |
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