<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; "></p><blockquote type="cite"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The current description on that page seems a bit off the mark:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Possible to 'bridge' to other extension on same server"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I mean, FreeSWITCH can do that right out of the box between extensions 1000-1019 so loopback wouldn't even be needed for that operation.<o:p></o:p></span></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; "><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; ">That refers to dialplan extensions, not user extensions. Yes there is confusion there in terminology since there are two very different types of extension - dialplan vs registration.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; "><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; ">Transfer and execute_extension can also be used to execute another extension, but there are differences in how that's done which means each solves different use-cases.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; "><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; "><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As I understand it, loopback provides a temporary place-holder to terminate a call until it can be disposed of to a "real" endpoint such as voicemail or a B-leg. Is this correct?</span></blockquote><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; ">You get a full outgoing and incoming channel where FS calls out and back into itself. The new incoming channel is then handled just like any other call. That's where the evilness comes in... it uses a lot more resources than might be needed by other approaches, and every channel gets its own CDR so that can screw up your CDR/billing system unless you handle it correctly.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; "><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; ">Once the call is bridged FS can unroll the loops to simplify the call handling and resources consumed.</p><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Steve</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br>On 12 Jan 2013, at 19:20, "Bote Man" <<a href="mailto:bote_radio@botecomm.com">bote_radio@botecomm.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">The current description on that page seems a bit off the mark:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">"Possible to 'bridge' to other extension on same server"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">I mean, FreeSWITCH can do that right out of the box between extensions 1000-1019 so loopback wouldn't even be needed for that operation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">As I understand it, loopback provides a temporary place-holder to terminate a call until it can be disposed of to a "real" endpoint such as voicemail or a B-leg. Is this correct?</span></p></blockquote></body></html>