How about using CNG (comfort noise generation) on the client? That might do the trick. Any better ideas?
>Asterisk does not support silence suppression - you should configure the >cleints not to suppress silence. Not sure if "keep alive" packets would do >the trick. >Rob >On 22/03/06, Steven Langley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi there > > I am using an IAX2 softphone built from the IaxClient library dialing into > Meetme conferences. The IaxClient seems to use silence suppression, and > not > sure if this can be disabled. The client works fine through most routers, > but for some it disconnects the client after about 5 minutes and gives > this > error in the asterisk logs: > > Chan_iax2.c:1480 attempt_transmit: Max retries exceeded to host 146.18.3.5 > on IAX2/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:4569/3 (type = 2, subclass = 1024, ts=655380, > seqno=177). > > My guess is that the timeout for UDP on the router is set to quite a low > value and it times out if there is no data sent from the client to the > server for this amount of time. Would a solution be to send a packet of > silence every minute or so? > > Many thanks > > Steven Langley > _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
