From: Kai Duebbert <kai@duebbert.de>
To: submit@bugs.debian.org
Subject: WISH: better documentation of chargeint feature
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 20:31:14 +0200
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Package: isdnutils
Version: 3.0-13

Just spend the last four hours finding out, why the chargehup/chargeint
feature of isdnlog didn't work. The documentation is not very good. The
information is hidden in the manpage of callerid.conf and it's not mentioned in
the manpage for isdnlog, where it should be as well. The problem is that
isdnlog needs an INTERFACE entry in callerid.conf for the corresponding number
or it doesn't calculate nor set the new chargeint number.

Please add the following (simple) information to the following files and it
will make it obvious how to use it (actually isdnlog should bring up an
errormessage, if chargeint is configured but it can't find an INTERFACE entry
for the number, but that's a problem for the developers and I might send them
this email too):


callerid.conf:  

add an "INTERFACE = ippp0" to the T-Online entry or even better add an entry:

[NUMBER]
NUMBER = 12345
ALIAS = Internet Provider
INTERFACE = ippp0           # important for chargeint feature

isdnlog.DEVICE:

#hangup = 5:3       # enable chargehup with 5 / 3 seconds security gap
                           # add the interface to the corresponding
                           # number in callerid.conf to make this work
                           # (INTERFACE = DEVICE).

man isdnlog.8:

add an comment with the "-hX" option that it needs the INTERFACE option in
callerid.conf (see callerid.conf manpage)


ok, these are the obvious files where, I think, it should be. It is really
annoying that the isdn4linux people didn't think of a quick comment on this
option other than in the callerid.conf manpage. And I think it would help save
time and money (I had about 30 phonecalls to test, if the feature works with
this or that option turned off/on and after searching the net for hours I
found the right answer nearly by accident at the Suse Support database for what
I love Suse now...;-) ). It is a really cool feature especially if you have to
pay for your local calls like in Germany.


Kai

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Kai Duebbert
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