On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Randy Bush waxed: > i am looking at iax to see if it is applicable to my needs. i > would appreciate any corrections of what i think i have understood > but probably have not.
Are we all supposed to guess what your needs are ? > iax uses udp and traverses nats. neither of these seems useful to > me. i loathe nats, and udp is not well-behaved in the sense of > congestion avoidance. I think you could argue that IAX loathes NATs, too. That's why it traverses them. That's a loathing way about it, eh ? > trunking will save some bytes in flight iff one has four or more > streams moving between two pbxes. but who would want to have the > pbxes in the data stream anyway? reinvite rules, especially in a > geographically distributed use scenario. You *can* set up IAX to by-pass intermediate PBXes for direct, end-to-end communication. I think the default conf files actually ship that way. > now, i could see a network of iaxen if there was some way to > negotiate call routing with costs etc. but trip looks a bit ugly > and kinda far away. and it certainly is not part of current play. So future expansion with the protocol is not your concern ? > what am i missing here? The answer to the question: what kind of VoIP do you want ? --Chris -- Chris Maj, Rochester cmaj_at_freedomcorpse_dot_com Pronunciation Guide: Maj == May _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users