asterisk users - Dec 2003 - Iax Client Library Issues? (DIAX, iaxComm, etc.)

Hi,

I seem to be having problems with IAX clients based on the iaxClient
library.  I have been working on my own client (an augmentation to the
Call Manager I released last week) and it seems to regularly miss
incoming calls entirely.  It also occasionally misses the drop signal
when the remote end drops a call.

Has anybody else seen this kind of behavior?  I have tested with my
client, with DIAX and with iaxComm and all three act the same way.  I
would really like to know if it has something to do with my asterisk
setup, or if it is specific to the client library I am using.

I can watch calls on Gastman and see Asterisk trying to establish the
call (the IAX phone appears) but the actual client never receives a
ringing state event.

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Steve Sokol

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 12:14:24 -0600, "Steven Sokol"
<ssokol@sokol-associates.com>
wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I seem to be having problems with IAX clients based on the iaxClient
>library.  I have been working on my own client (an augmentation to the
>Call Manager I released last week) and it seems to regularly miss
>incoming calls entirely.  It also occasionally misses the drop signal
>when the remote end drops a call.
>
>Has anybody else seen this kind of behavior?  I have tested with my
>client, with DIAX and with iaxComm and all three act the same way.  I
>would really like to know if it has something to do with my asterisk
>setup, or if it is specific to the client library I am using.
I am seeing the same behaviour ocassionally, but had attributed it to something
wrong in my application code, rather than the library.

Steven Sokol <> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I seem to be having problems with IAX clients based on the iaxClient
> library.  I have been working on my own client (an augmentation to
> the Call Manager I released last week) and it seems to regularly miss
> incoming calls entirely.  It also occasionally misses the drop signal
> when the remote end drops a call.    
> 
> Has anybody else seen this kind of behavior?  I have tested with my
> client, with DIAX and with iaxComm and all three act the same way.  I
> would really like to know if it has something to do with my asterisk
> setup, or if it is specific to the client library I am using.   
> 
> I can watch calls on Gastman and see Asterisk trying to establish the
> call (the IAX phone appears) but the actual client never receives a
> ringing state event.  
> 
> Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Steve Sokol
> 
> 
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I can agree that some incoming calls are being missed entirely by DIAX,
but I am not ready to point fingers... I am just starting the
troubleshooting.  I have messed with dialstrings, to no avail, and will
soon be testing that cool Ethereal plugin :)

I will let you know if I discover anything useful.

Thanks,
David Gomillion

The new versions of iaxcomm and DIAX are both now using the iax2 protocol.  
So in order to receive incoming calls on either of them in your 
extensions.conf file change IAX/clientname to IAX2clientname.  Then you 
should be able to receive incoming calls on either iaxcomm or DIAX.  Also 
there is a mailing list for the iaxclient library.  It's 
iaxclient-devel@sourceforge.net.  Hope this helps.
AJ




On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Steven Sokol wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I seem to be having problems with IAX clients based on the iaxClient
> library.  I have been working on my own client (an augmentation to the
> Call Manager I released last week) and it seems to regularly miss
> incoming calls entirely.  It also occasionally misses the drop signal
> when the remote end drops a call.
> 
> Has anybody else seen this kind of behavior?  I have tested with my
> client, with DIAX and with iaxComm and all three act the same way.  I
> would really like to know if it has something to do with my asterisk
> setup, or if it is specific to the client library I am using.
> 
> I can watch calls on Gastman and see Asterisk trying to establish the
> call (the IAX phone appears) but the actual client never receives a
> ringing state event.
> 
> Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Steve Sokol
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Asterisk-Users mailing list
> Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com
> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
>

> I seem to be having problems with IAX clients based on the iaxClient
> library.  I have been working on my own client (an augmentation to the
> Call Manager I released last week) and it seems to regularly miss
> incoming calls entirely.  It also occasionally misses the drop signal
Same here. Generally an incoming call would go thru immediately after
registration, but not always. Some 5min or more after registration, and
incoming calls almost never show up. SIP client (Xten) is ringing just fine
(on the same computer at the same time - I'm setup on both IAX and SIP), so
it's not NAT/firewall issue.

Oh yes, and I'm almost always behind NAT (the client side, that is).

Peter

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