--- Damon Estep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Qualify=yes will send a SIP OPTIONS periodically and > keep the NAT open, > if you use 1 to 1 NAT (versus PAT where it is "many > to one NAT") it will > work because port 5060 on the private address will > still be port 5060 on > the public address. Tried that, and it just turned an intermittent failure into a permanent failure. I added: qualify=yes qualifyfreqnotok=15000 qualifyfreqok=20000 qualifysmoothing=yes to the peer details for the iax trunk in [EMAIL PROTECTED] and hit the big red "reload" line at the top. Then "iax2 show peers" on the console showed under status that the peer was indeed being monitored and was ok and had a ping of about 100ms, and "iax2 debug" showed all the keepalive messages every 20 seconds, as intended. And calling to my assigned DID using my PSTN provider's own outbound termination (so that the call was both outbound and inbound on my iax2 trunk), the call worked as usual. But calling from an external phone (so that my iax2 trunk would see only the inbound connection), my asterisk system failed to ever answer at all, and "iax2 debug" showed no indication that it ever even noticed any incoming call. So I deleted those four "qualify" lines and hit [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s big red "reload", yet "iax2 show peers" STILL showed the peer being monitored! And asterisk still refused to answer external incoming calls. So I did "restart gracefully" and asterisk finally actually honored my deletion of the "qualify" lines ("sip show peers" now once again shows status as "Unmonitored", as before), and once again asterisk notices and answers incoming calls placed not only from my PSTN provider's own termination but also from external phones... though of course it's probably going to start failing intermittently again, as usual.
So now I have a new question (besides my original, about how to ensure that asterisk _always_ answers the phone): why would enabling "qualify" cause an immediate and consistent failure to ever answer incoming external phone calls? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ --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