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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[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?

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

2009-03-25 Thread Cary Fitch
...@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

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

2009-03-25 Thread OCG Technical Support
: [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

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

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

2009-03-25 Thread Cary Fitch
-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

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

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

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