Shubha,

I don't know of a way to do this currently with H.323 v3, but the current draft of H.225.0 v4 adds a "capacity" field to many messages that allows a gateway to report its available call capacity to a gatekeeper.

Rich

Shubha Ramani wrote:

Many implementors are relying upon number of ports on a gateway to charge for licensing (one license per port). Does H323 support a message (from the H.323 gateway to the Gatekeeper) which advertises number of ports/resources available on the gateway , say upon gateway reboot or restart ? By gateway port, I mean the termination of one circuit (one channel on a T1, for instance).

MGCP has a RSIP (Restart In Progress) message which solves this dilemma.

Any help would be appreciated.

Shubha

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