Re: [asterisk-users] ITSP's no longer supporting IAX?

2009-03-28 Thread Roger Marquis
Steve Totaro wrote:
 I understand you are a developer and you want IAX2 to be great.
 That is your job, but the fact is that it is not and has caused
 audio and security problems for YEARS in EVERY release. It
 should bug you and everyone at Digium that waves the IAX2
 flag.

Can you elaborate on these audio and security problems Steve?  Looking
at the two protocol specs I cannot see a basis for your claim.  IAX
doesn't embed the local IP address in the packet data but that's surely no
substantive security.  It does separate data and signaling at the
application-level, but again, that's no basis for such a claim.

Protocols must be looked at separately from their implementations.  From
the various responses it appears that Asterisk 1.4's implementation of IAX
has flaws.  These do not necessarily reflect on the protocol.  OTOH, there
are a lot of engineers with SIP skill and experience who, naturally, are
concerned with their investment in time, education, and experience.  While
this may or may not apply to Sonicwall engineering, it's also true that any
streaming protocol will be better handled by devices that process packets
in ASICs (high-end firewalls) rather than CPUs (PCs and low-end firewalls).

FWIW (2 data points) I get uniformly better service from our IAX trunk
provider than our SIP trunk provider.  No idea whether that's protocol,
implementation (1.4 on my side), or provider-related though I suspect the
later.

Roger Marquis

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Re: [asterisk-users] ITSP's no longer supporting IAX?

2009-03-28 Thread Jon Pounder
Roger Marquis wrote:
 Steve Totaro wrote:
   
 I understand you are a developer and you want IAX2 to be great.
 That is your job, but the fact is that it is not and has caused
 audio and security problems for YEARS in EVERY release. It
 should bug you and everyone at Digium that waves the IAX2
 flag.
 

 Can you elaborate on these audio and security problems Steve?  Looking
 at the two protocol specs I cannot see a basis for your claim.  IAX
 doesn't embed the local IP address in the packet data but that's surely no
 substantive security.  It does separate data and signaling at the
 application-level, but again, that's no basis for such a claim.

 Protocols must be looked at separately from their implementations.  From
 the various responses it appears that Asterisk 1.4's implementation of IAX
 has flaws.  These do not necessarily reflect on the protocol.  OTOH, there
 are a lot of engineers with SIP skill and experience who, naturally, are
 concerned with their investment in time, education, and experience.  While
 this may or may not apply to Sonicwall engineering, it's also true that any
 streaming protocol will be better handled by devices that process packets
 in ASICs (high-end firewalls) rather than CPUs (PCs and low-end firewalls).
   

This sounds like a bunch of gobbledegook spewed out by those very high 
end firewall vendors.
Call it what you want but anything that processes packets in any way and 
makes a decision on what to do is by definition a CPU. And a general 
purpose CPU is not exactly poor at the job. If you look at utilization 
levels and latency on a typical CPU you would have thrown away already 
as a server, its barely even noticable utilization running a complex set 
of rules on a high volume data stream.
 FWIW (2 data points) I get uniformly better service from our IAX trunk
 provider than our SIP trunk provider.  No idea whether that's protocol,
 implementation (1.4 on my side), or provider-related though I suspect the
 later.

 Roger Marquis

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Re: [asterisk-users] ITSP's no longer supporting IAX?

2009-03-28 Thread Roger Marquis
Jon Pounder wrote:
 This sounds like a bunch of gobbledegook spewed out by those very high
 end firewall vendors.  Call it what you want but anything that processes
 packets in any way and makes a decision on what to do is by definition a
 CPU.

You won't find much support for that opinion in network engineering
circles.  The processing advantage of ASICs is easily measured and widely
documented.

ASICs are particularly critical to latency-sensitive protocols and those
using small packet sizes with correspondingly high packet counts.
According to Praveen Kumar (Founder/CEO of Packet Island) the ASIC
differential is even more noticeable with interactive streaming video than
streaming audio.

Roger Marquis

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Re: [asterisk-users] ITSP's no longer supporting IAX?

2009-03-28 Thread Benny Amorsen
Roger Marquis marq...@roble.com writes:

 ASICs are particularly critical to latency-sensitive protocols and those
 using small packet sizes with correspondingly high packet counts.
 According to Praveen Kumar (Founder/CEO of Packet Island) the ASIC
 differential is even more noticeable with interactive streaming video than
 streaming audio.

However, there is nothing that makes IAX more difficult than RTP. For
both, you just have to use the standard UDP forwarding path without
doing inspection. ASIC's won't care either way.


/Benny


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Re: [asterisk-users] ITSP's no longer supporting IAX?

2009-03-26 Thread Leif Madsen


Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
 The choice of router/NAT is critical though. Unlimitel recommended the 
 SnapGear 560 to me, and it eliminated all the issues I was having with 
 IAX going through my Sonicwall devices.

I've had nothing but issues with sonicwalls on both the IAX2 and SIP side of 
things. At this point I simply refuse to work with customers who have problems 
with their network if they are fronting it with a sonicwall. It's a waste of 
the 
customers time and money, and seems to be an insurmountable obstacle.

So I'm not surprised replacing it fixed your issue :)

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Re: [asterisk-users] ITSP's no longer supporting IAX?

2009-03-26 Thread Tilghman Lesher
On Wednesday 25 March 2009 19:20:00 Steve Totaro wrote:
 On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Tilghman Lesher wrote:
  On Wednesday 25 March 2009 10:45:59 Cary Fitch wrote:
  It was probably Voice pulse that suggested we not use IAX, and we are
  getting an IAX error at this time on another connection where we do use
  it.
 
  The error is:
  [Mar 25 05:46:16] WARNING[5102]: chan_iax2.c:1056 __send_lagrq: I was
  supposed to send a LAGRQ with callno 9779, but no such call exists (and
  I cannot remove lagid, either)
 
  Which looks like an internal error.  I have been wondering where to
  report this error. :-)
 
  It isn't killing us but I would like to see it go away.
 
  It should be gone in the latest release.

 Do both sides have to be using the latest release?  Has this been
 the same bug since many years ago, or a new moving target that has
 been hit?

 Just use SIP and save yourself the pain.

If you like, I can order up a similar warning in SIP.  The warning is actually
fairly safe to ignore, but it bugs the crap out of some people (and then we
can similarly argue Just use IAX2 and save yourself the pain).

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Re: [asterisk-users] ITSP's no longer supporting IAX?

2009-03-26 Thread Steve Totaro
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Tilghman Lesher
tilgh...@mail.jeffandtilghman.com wrote:
 On Wednesday 25 March 2009 19:20:00 Steve Totaro wrote:
 On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Tilghman Lesher wrote:
  On Wednesday 25 March 2009 10:45:59 Cary Fitch wrote:
  It was probably Voice pulse that suggested we not use IAX, and we are
  getting an IAX error at this time on another connection where we do use
  it.
 
  The error is:
  [Mar 25 05:46:16] WARNING[5102]: chan_iax2.c:1056 __send_lagrq: I was
  supposed to send a LAGRQ with callno 9779, but no such call exists (and
  I cannot remove lagid, either)
 
  Which looks like an internal error.  I have been wondering where to
  report this error. :-)
 
  It isn't killing us but I would like to see it go away.
 
  It should be gone in the latest release.

 Do both sides have to be using the latest release?  Has this been
 the same bug since many years ago, or a new moving target that has
 been hit?

 Just use SIP and save yourself the pain.

 If you like, I can order up a similar warning in SIP.  The warning is actually
 fairly safe to ignore, but it bugs the crap out of some people (and then we
 can similarly argue Just use IAX2 and save yourself the pain).

Yes, please do.  I would like.

I understand you are a developer and you want IAX2 to be great.  That
is your job, but the fact is that it is not and has caused audio and
security problems for YEARS in EVERY release.  It should bug you and
everyone at Digium that waves the IAX2 flag.

While Asterisk's implementation of the SIP RFC is far from compliant,
it generally Just Works not matter what version you are using.


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[asterisk-users] ITSP's no longer supporting IAX?

2009-03-25 Thread OCG Technical Support
After a variety of connectivity problems, my itsp (Unlimitel.ca) blamed the
problem on the IAX protocol.  They told me that as of Asterisk 1.4 the IAX
protocol went downhill and many carriers (like VoicePulse) are discontinuing
support for IAX.

 

Is this correct?  We are all heading for SIP?

 

Thanks,

MD

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Re: [asterisk-users] ITSP's no longer supporting IAX?

2009-03-25 Thread Meftah Tayeb

hello,
(if this is correct):
IAX is no maintained now
but IAX2 is maintained by the Asterisk Developers Team
(i'm not sur) please si other responces
thanks
OCG Technical Support a écrit :


After a variety of connectivity problems, my itsp (Unlimitel.ca) 
blamed the problem on the IAX protocol.  They told me that as of 
Asterisk 1.4 the IAX protocol went downhill and many carriers (like 
VoicePulse) are discontinuing support for IAX.


 


Is this correct?  We are all heading for SIP?

 


Thanks,

MD



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Re: [asterisk-users] ITSP's no longer supporting IAX?

2009-03-25 Thread Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
OCG Technical Support wrote:
 After a variety of connectivity problems, my itsp (Unlimitel.ca) blamed 
 the problem on the IAX protocol.  They told me that as of Asterisk 1.4 
 the IAX protocol went downhill and many carriers (like VoicePulse) are 
 discontinuing support for IAX.
 
 Is this correct?  We are all heading for SIP?

I use IAX with unlimitel.ca on Asterisk 1.6, and I haven't had any 
issues at all.

The choice of router/NAT is critical though. Unlimitel recommended the 
SnapGear 560 to me, and it eliminated all the issues I was having with 
IAX going through my Sonicwall devices.

Just another datapoint for you...

- Mike

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Re: [asterisk-users] ITSP's no longer supporting IAX?

2009-03-25 Thread Steve Totaro
Side note and very telling.  IAX.cc (Vitelity now) advised against
using IAX a long time ago.

That would be the same as CiscoGear.com advising to not use Cisco but 3Com.

Thanks,
Steve

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:04 AM, OCG Technical Support supp...@ocg.ca wrote:
 After a variety of connectivity problems, my itsp (Unlimitel.ca) blamed the
 problem on the IAX protocol.  They told me that as of Asterisk 1.4 the IAX
 protocol went downhill and many carriers (like VoicePulse) are discontinuing
 support for IAX.



 Is this correct?  We are all heading for SIP?



 Thanks,

 MD


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Re: [asterisk-users] ITSP's no longer supporting IAX?

2009-03-25 Thread Steve Totaro
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
m...@avtechpulse.com wrote:
 OCG Technical Support wrote:
 After a variety of connectivity problems, my itsp (Unlimitel.ca) blamed
 the problem on the IAX protocol.  They told me that as of Asterisk 1.4
 the IAX protocol went downhill and many carriers (like VoicePulse) are
 discontinuing support for IAX.

 Is this correct?  We are all heading for SIP?

 I use IAX with unlimitel.ca on Asterisk 1.6, and I haven't had any
 issues at all.

 The choice of router/NAT is critical though. Unlimitel recommended the
 SnapGear 560 to me, and it eliminated all the issues I was having with
 IAX going through my Sonicwall devices.

 Just another datapoint for you...

 - Mike


Just curious.

Since IAX only uses ONE port, do you have any idea what the technical
reason behind a specific router would be critical?

SIP, I can see.

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Re: [asterisk-users] ITSP's no longer supporting IAX?

2009-03-25 Thread Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
 The choice of router/NAT is critical though. Unlimitel recommended the
 SnapGear 560 to me, and it eliminated all the issues I was having with
 IAX going through my Sonicwall devices.

 Just another datapoint for you...
 Just curious.
 
 Since IAX only uses ONE port, do you have any idea what the technical
 reason behind a specific router would be critical?

Well, with a Sonicwall TZ170, you had to enabled Firewall  VOIP  
Enable consistent NAT, which was not the default setting.

Then, you had to figure out that Firewall  Advanced  Default UDP 
Connection Timeout defaulted to 30 seconds, less than the normal 
Asterisk 60 second registration timeout.

Then, for some reason, the TZ170 would simply lose packets. A fraction 
of calls would end almost immediately after they started, with Asterisk 
reporting a raw hangup error and INVAL packets, suggesting that some 
IAX2 packets were being lost, mis-ordered, or mis-translated.

Anyway, the Sonicwall TZ170 was totally unreliable for IAX2 connections. 
They caused me a lot of grief. Avoid them like the plague.

The Snapgear 560 just works, which I appreciate very much!


- Mike

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Re: [asterisk-users] ITSP's no longer supporting IAX?

2009-03-25 Thread Steve Totaro
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:04 AM, OCG Technical Support supp...@ocg.ca wrote:
 After a variety of connectivity problems, my itsp (Unlimitel.ca) blamed the
 problem on the IAX protocol.  They told me that as of Asterisk 1.4 the IAX
 protocol went downhill and many carriers (like VoicePulse) are discontinuing
 support for IAX.



 Is this correct?  We are all heading for SIP?



 Thanks,

 MD


IAX2 has been a lemon since it's inception.  Sure, some people have
success.  It seems to work OK for IAXModem.

I think the problem is that from the slightest version change to
another, two boxes with different versions and many times the same
version don't work well.

I have been saying this for many years (check the archives) and have
been paid decent sums of money to say Oh, you are using IAX, and
switch them to SIP, everything fixed instantly.

Do yourself a favor and ditch IAX2, maybe IAX3.6 might be production ready?

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Re: [asterisk-users] ITSP's no longer supporting IAX?

2009-03-25 Thread Cary Fitch
We had some carrier suggest we don't use IAX because SIP had a better fail
over capability than IAX.

 

I don't remember the details.  We do use both however, with acceptable
results.

 

Cary Fitch

 

  _  

From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of OCG Technical
Support
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 8:05 AM
To: 'Asterisk Users List'
Subject: [asterisk-users] ITSP's no longer supporting IAX?

 

After a variety of connectivity problems, my itsp (Unlimitel.ca) blamed the
problem on the IAX protocol.  They told me that as of Asterisk 1.4 the IAX
protocol went downhill and many carriers (like VoicePulse) are discontinuing
support for IAX.

 

Is this correct?  We are all heading for SIP?

 

Thanks,

MD

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Re: [asterisk-users] ITSP's no longer supporting IAX?

2009-03-25 Thread OCG Technical Support
I use simple port forwarding on an Linux firewall (iptables)...so that's not
the issue.

I was referring to IAX2 of course (IAX has be gone a long time I think)...
Unlimitel is running * 1.4.x (and so am I)...

I just can't understand IAX2 connections suddenly dropping (on one day)
being protocol issues (if no one changed their * versions).  Or is this how
IAX2 fails?

-Original Message-
From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Dr. Michael J.
Chudobiak
Sent: March 25, 2009 9:29 AM
To: Asterisk Users List
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] ITSP's no longer supporting IAX?

 The choice of router/NAT is critical though. Unlimitel recommended the
 SnapGear 560 to me, and it eliminated all the issues I was having with
 IAX going through my Sonicwall devices.

 Just another datapoint for you...
 Just curious.
 
 Since IAX only uses ONE port, do you have any idea what the technical
 reason behind a specific router would be critical?

Well, with a Sonicwall TZ170, you had to enabled Firewall  VOIP  
Enable consistent NAT, which was not the default setting.

Then, you had to figure out that Firewall  Advanced  Default UDP 
Connection Timeout defaulted to 30 seconds, less than the normal 
Asterisk 60 second registration timeout.

Then, for some reason, the TZ170 would simply lose packets. A fraction 
of calls would end almost immediately after they started, with Asterisk 
reporting a raw hangup error and INVAL packets, suggesting that some 
IAX2 packets were being lost, mis-ordered, or mis-translated.

Anyway, the Sonicwall TZ170 was totally unreliable for IAX2 connections. 
They caused me a lot of grief. Avoid them like the plague.

The Snapgear 560 just works, which I appreciate very much!


- Mike

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Re: [asterisk-users] ITSP's no longer supporting IAX?

2009-03-25 Thread Tilghman Lesher
On Wednesday 25 March 2009 09:59:27 OCG Technical Support wrote:
 I use simple port forwarding on an Linux firewall (iptables)...so that's
 not the issue.

 I was referring to IAX2 of course (IAX has be gone a long time I think)...
 Unlimitel is running * 1.4.x (and so am I)...

 I just can't understand IAX2 connections suddenly dropping (on one day)
 being protocol issues (if no one changed their * versions).  Or is this how
 IAX2 fails?

We believe that it's more likely a victim of the economy.  More people use
SIP, so in an effort to cut their support expenses, ITSPs are dropping IAX2
support.  I wouldn't be surprised to hear that Voicepulse additionally laid
off several tech support staff at the same time as this change.

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Re: [asterisk-users] ITSP's no longer supporting IAX?

2009-03-25 Thread Cary Fitch

It was probably Voice pulse that suggested we not use IAX, and we are
getting an IAX error at this time on another connection where we do use it.

The error is:
[Mar 25 05:46:16] WARNING[5102]: chan_iax2.c:1056 __send_lagrq: I was
supposed to send a LAGRQ with callno 9779, but no such call exists (and I
cannot remove lagid, either)

Which looks like an internal error.  I have been wondering where to report
this error. :-)

It isn't killing us but I would like to see it go away.

Cary Fitch



-Original Message-
From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Tilghman
Lesher
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 10:33 AM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] ITSP's no longer supporting IAX?

On Wednesday 25 March 2009 09:59:27 OCG Technical Support wrote:
 I use simple port forwarding on an Linux firewall (iptables)...so that's
 not the issue.

 I was referring to IAX2 of course (IAX has be gone a long time I think)...
 Unlimitel is running * 1.4.x (and so am I)...

 I just can't understand IAX2 connections suddenly dropping (on one day)
 being protocol issues (if no one changed their * versions).  Or is this
how
 IAX2 fails?

We believe that it's more likely a victim of the economy.  More people use
SIP, so in an effort to cut their support expenses, ITSPs are dropping IAX2
support.  I wouldn't be surprised to hear that Voicepulse additionally laid
off several tech support staff at the same time as this change.

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Re: [asterisk-users] ITSP's no longer supporting IAX?

2009-03-25 Thread Tilghman Lesher
On Wednesday 25 March 2009 10:45:59 Cary Fitch wrote:
 It was probably Voice pulse that suggested we not use IAX, and we are
 getting an IAX error at this time on another connection where we do use it.

 The error is:
 [Mar 25 05:46:16] WARNING[5102]: chan_iax2.c:1056 __send_lagrq: I was
 supposed to send a LAGRQ with callno 9779, but no such call exists (and I
 cannot remove lagid, either)

 Which looks like an internal error.  I have been wondering where to report
 this error. :-)

 It isn't killing us but I would like to see it go away.

It should be gone in the latest release.

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Re: [asterisk-users] ITSP's no longer supporting IAX?

2009-03-25 Thread Steve Totaro
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Tilghman Lesher
tilgh...@mail.jeffandtilghman.com wrote:
 On Wednesday 25 March 2009 10:45:59 Cary Fitch wrote:
 It was probably Voice pulse that suggested we not use IAX, and we are
 getting an IAX error at this time on another connection where we do use it.

 The error is:
 [Mar 25 05:46:16] WARNING[5102]: chan_iax2.c:1056 __send_lagrq: I was
 supposed to send a LAGRQ with callno 9779, but no such call exists (and I
 cannot remove lagid, either)

 Which looks like an internal error.  I have been wondering where to report
 this error. :-)

 It isn't killing us but I would like to see it go away.

 It should be gone in the latest release.

 --
 Tilghman


Do both sides have to be using the latest release?  Has this been
the same bug since many years ago, or a new moving target that has
been hit?

Just use SIP and save yourself the pain.

There are methods to get around virtually any of SIP's networking
issues and downfalls and it works far better than IAX as far as call
quality and Just Working which is kind of what i personally want in
a PBX.

IAX2 is and has been hit or miss (MOSTLY miss) since before Asterisk
1.0.  Digium employees have even expressed this (off the record of
course).

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Re: [asterisk-users] ITSP's no longer supporting IAX?

2009-03-25 Thread Lee Howard
Steve Totaro wrote:
 IAX2 has been a lemon since it's inception.  Sure, some people have
 success.  It seems to work OK for IAXModem.
   

I chose to use IAX2 in developing IAXmodem because IAX2 is relatively 
simple compared to SIP and because at the time I didn't know of any 
easy-to-use SIP library with a simple sample program.  libiax2 and its 
accompanying sample programs were ideal for getting things going quickly.

In retrospect, I still think that it was a good decision.  However, if I 
had chosen to use SIP instead it would make things like adding T.38 
support into it much easier.  (But, that said, my purpose in developing 
IAXmodem was to interface HylaFAX with TDM cards through Asterisk 
without additional hardware.  T.38 support wasn't - and still isn't - 
ever a goal.)

Yet, I did have to work hard to get libiax2 working right.

 I think the problem is that from the slightest version change to
 another, two boxes with different versions and many times the same
 version don't work well.
   

The root cause of that, I suspect, is that Asterisk itself does not use 
libiax2 for chan_iax2.  Consequently, developers really don't have a 
reference library that is used as the standard.

Thanks,

Lee.

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