Asterisk 1.2.7 RedHat 9.0 I frequently have the need to redirect calls that come in on a DiD provisioned by my ITSP, back to the ITSP so that they can terminate the call on the PSTN. For example when an external call comes in, I often have to send it to a cell phone. I believe that this is referred to as "hairpinning" the call. I do this by answering the incoming call and then I use a simple "dial" command to send it back to my ISTP using a SIP or IAX channel and the ITSP terminates it on the cell phone. One of my main goals is to keep my Asterisk box out of the media path and let the ITSP handle all the provisioning for the call. I understand that the default behaviour of the "dial" command is supposed to do just that, but I've run into problems though on both SIP & IAX channels. With IAX I use a simple dial command: Dial(IAX2/myIAX/7775551234) Things seem to work great, I can see the handshaking in the CLI as the call gets redirected and once both end points are connected, I can actually disconnect my box from the ethernet and the call is uninterruoted. Unfortuanately the call quality is terrible! Low volume, choppy and so on. It seemed to me that since I had stepped my * box out of the network, the problem must be with the ITSP. They suggested I try SIP. With SIP I use: Dial(SIP/7775551234@mySIP) Unfortuantely I don't get the handshakes and the whole call ends up passing through my box, which is something I'm desperate to avoid. I have canreinvite=yes as seen from my sip.conf: [mySIP] type=peer auth=md5 username=<UID> fromuser=<UID> fromdomain=<domain> secret=<pw> host=<domain> port=5060 nat=yes canreinvite=yes qualify=no disallow=all allow=g729 dtmfmode=rfc2833 insecure=very context=incoming-sip Now the questions: 1) Given that I can see the handshaking and I can disconnect my * box during the call, I think that the IAX call quality problems are on my ITSP's end, but I could be wrong. Is there anything I can do to improve call quality when using IAX this way? 2) What about SIP? Why doesn't that work? I always thought that "dial" would do exactly what I'm after (hairpin/redirect the call) if I avoided options like t or T. Any direction you can provide is highly appreciated. Thanks, H
Asterisk 1.2.7 RedHat 9.0 I frequently have the need to redirect calls that come in on a DiD provisioned by my ITSP, back to the ITSP so that they can terminate the call on the PSTN. For example when an external call comes in, I often have to send it to a cell phone. I believe that this is referred to as "hairpinning" the call. I do this by answering the incoming call and then I use a simple "dial" command to send it back to my ISTP using a SIP or IAX channel and the ITSP terminates it on the cell phone. One of my main goals is to keep my Asterisk box out of the media path and let the ITSP handle all the provisioning for the call. I understand that the default behaviour of the "dial" command is supposed to do just that, but I've run into problems though on both SIP & IAX channels. With IAX I use a simple dial command: Dial(IAX2/myIAX/7775551234) Things seem to work great, I can see the handshaking in the CLI as the call gets redirected and once both end points are connected, I can actually disconnect my box from the ethernet and the call is uninterruoted. Unfortuanately the call quality is terrible! Low volume, choppy and so on. It seemed to me that since I had stepped my * box out of the network, the problem must be with the ITSP. They suggested I try SIP. With SIP I use: Dial(SIP/7775551234@mySIP) Unfortuantely I don't get the handshakes and the whole call ends up passing through my box, which is something I'm desperate to avoid. I have canreinvite=yes as seen from my sip.conf: [mySIP] type=peer auth=md5 username=<UID> fromuser=<UID> fromdomain=<domain> secret=<pw> host=<domain> port=5060 nat=yes canreinvite=yes qualify=no disallow=all allow=g729 dtmfmode=rfc2833 insecure=very context=incoming-sip Now the questions: 1) Given that I can see the handshaking and I can disconnect my * box during the call, I think that the IAX call quality problems are on my ITSP's end, but I could be wrong. Is there anything I can do to improve call quality when using IAX this way? 2) What about SIP? Why doesn't that work? I always thought that "dial" would do exactly what I'm after (hairpin/redirect the call) if I avoided options like t or T. Any direction you can provide is highly appreciated. Thanks, H