[Freeswitch-users] what happened to iax

[Henry Huang]

While IAX is good for penetrating NAT issues. There is no good solution to
load balance IAX registration or calls. So if you want to build something
scalable, it is better to use SIP.

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On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Derek Smithies <derek at indranet.co.nz>wrote:

> Hi,
>  There is another solution.
>
> As discussed at Cluecon.
> There is most of the iax code available in the opal/ptlib libraries.
>
> Sure - opal&ptlib don't build in freeswitch - some issue about this was
> mentioned at cluecon this year. However, the build script in freeswitch
> (from when I last looked) uses a branch version of ptlib and trunk version
> of opal.. Not a good mix. Better to use the trunk revision of ptlib&opal --
> where ptlib&opal come from the same SVN revision number.
>
> Ok - there needs to be an iax registrar put into the opal code - bounties
> anyone? and you never know - it would be quite doable..
>
> The voip protocol side of iax is useful - and great for people to use when
> connecting from an unknown position to some server on the public internet.
> Sufficiently useful to make it worth using.
>
> Who is game to work with me in getting the answer?
>
> Derek.
>
>
> On Mon, 6 Sep 2010, Jeffrey Leung wrote:
>
>  If you do really want to use IAX, there is a solution: Use Asterisk as
>> an IAX protocol translator and have it to forward all the calls via
>> SIP to Freeswitch.
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Brian West <brian at freeswitch.org> wrote:
>>
>>> If you had attended ClueCon you would have know this!  ;)  The Doc and
>>> his
>>> Mr. Fusion couldn't save it.
>>> /b
>>> On Sep 6, 2010, at 9:32 PM, covici at ccs.covici.com wrote:
>>>
>>> OK, thanks.  I guess I am screwed trying to get to that box.
>>> Brian West <brian at freeswitch.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> A tear in time and space has caused the flux capacitor to not function
>>> properly so we had to retire the module since the lib didn't work right
>>> anymore.
>>>
>>> /b
>>>
>>>
>>>
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