On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Jeroen C. van Gelderen <slim@thegreek.com> wrote:

<action application="bridge" data="freetdm/1/a/$1|freetdm/2/a/$1"/>

This grabs the first available channel out of 16 FXO ports.

But what is the "right" way to do it when I need to use 1.5 spans (i.e. 12 FXO ports)?

Is there such a thing as a virtual span that can be built out of individual FXO ports?

I have a feeling I'm missing something rather obvious.

You can create spans with channels from any other span (as long as the signaling is the same). [span zt xorcomSpan] ; channels from 1.5 trunks fxo-channel => 1-12 Then dial: <action application="bridge" data="freetdm/xorcomSpan/a/$1/> You can also just define a group for those channels and use the group for dialing. [span zt xorcomTrunk1] trunk_type => FXO group => xorcomg1 fxo-channels => 1-8 [span zt xorcomTrunk2] trunk_type => FXO group => xorcomg1 fxo-channels => 9-12 Then dial using the group name. <action application="bridge" data="freetdm/xorcomg1/a/$1/> This means spans and groups are strings within the same name space (as far as hunting is concerned), and you should not make them conflict. Moises Silva Senior Software Engineer Sangoma Technologies Inc. | 100 Renfrew Drive, Suite 100, Markham ON L3R 9R6 Canada t. 1 905 474 1990 x128 | e. moy@sangoma.com