We've been using SIP with Asterisk for a couple of years now, and it's generally worked fine. However we're now trying to use a more complicated codec setup, and I've hit a problem with how codecs are selected that I can't get around.

For a simple configuration:

 XLite > GSM > Asterisk

where GSM is the _only_ codec selected on XLite, and in sip.conf we have:

 [general]
 ...
 disallow=all
 allow=gsm

it works fine, however if we change the sip.conf to this:

 [general]
 ...
 disallow=all
 allow=g729

 [test_extension]
 ...
 disallow=all
 allow=gsm

we get a "No compatible codecs!" error.

I've done a bit of testing, and discovered that the codec settings for extensions do not seem to be taken into account during the call setup phase, only when the connection is completed do the extension specific codecs take effect. So in the above example, the call is rejected without ever referring to the test_extension codec settings.

I've confirmed this by setting ILBC as the only allowed codec in XLite, and setting sip.conf to:

 [general]
 ...
 disallow=all
 allow=ilbc

 [test_extension]
 ...
 disallow=all
 allow=gsm

The call is accepted (both ends support ILBC), but when the call is connected it reenables GSM on Xlite and uses that instead.

The obvious answer is to reenable gsm in the general section, but this causes a problem with unknown inbound SIP calls, which I want force to G729.

Is this a bug, by design or is it a problem specific to Xlite?

Any help appreciated.

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Jamie Neil | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | 0870 7777 454
Versado I.T. Services Ltd. | http://versado.net/ | 0845 450 1254
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