Re: [Asterisk-Users] Bug, Feature, or Limitation?

[Steve Kann]

Steve Murphy wrote: --On Tuesday, December 21, 2004 9:37 AM -0700 Steve Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Howdy-- I'm playing with different IAX softphones. I've got DIAX and IAXPHONE on a windows (XP) machine on my network, and I'm running asterisk on a newly loaded Fedora Core 3 machine. I set up a separate IAX account for each phone. I was EXPECTING them to each register seperately with asterisk.... But I am swiftly finding out, that ONLY one registers. The first one to start running, gets to register with Asterisk, and the other is left out in the cold. Am I seeing things right? Is this the way it should be, or is something wrong? Many thanks! Hmmm... two IAX clients on one IP address, both trying to bind to port 4569? I haven't tried it to see, but I'm not surprised it doesn't work. You are saying the clients bind to 4569? You mean, an IAX client is also a server? I always pictured clients accessing 4569 on the remote machine they want to register with, and then they have a connection, like email servers, web servers, ftp servers, etc. Once the connection is made, the server can send signalling to it. Am I picturing this wrong? iaxclient tries to bind to port 4569, but should use a transient port if binding to port 4569 fails.   This makes it possible for iaxclient to receive calls without requiring registration.  I've never tested this on windows, but it works fine under Linux. Here's the code:             if (preferredportno > 0) {                     sin.sin_family = AF_INET;                     sin.sin_addr.s_addr = 0;                     sin.sin_port = htons((short)preferredportno);                     if (bind(netfd, (struct sockaddr *) &sin, sizeof(sin)) < 0) {                             DEBU(G "Unable to bind to preferred port.  Using random one instead.");                     }             }             sinlen = sizeof(sin);             if (getsockname(netfd, (struct sockaddr *) &sin, &sinlen) < 0) {                     close(netfd);                     netfd = -1;                     DEBU(G "Unable to figure out what I'm bound to.");                     IAXERROR "Unable to determine bound port number.");             } The situation you describe should work;  you will have failures, though, if both clients try to access the same audio devices, and your drivers/os don't permit that. -SteveK

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