Hi, My question is in refernece to the posting by Jeremy McNamara here.. http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/2003-October/022966.html He states that in order for "trunking" to work the type has to be peer.. When I set mine up I did so using type=friend just to make it simple.. So when I read the above posting I thought well maybe my "trunking" has not been working properly since I set it up (It does in fact work, I can make and recieve calls over the IAX connection without any apperent problems).. So a short while ago I opened up my conf files and tried setting the type to peer from friend (yes I reloaded *).. Guess what??.. The link no longer worked.. I then tried setting type to user and it is worked.. So my IAX link works as friend and user but not as peer.. Seeing as peer was specified as the requirement in order to get an IAX2 trunk to work properly I am a little confused.. Is my setup working when it shouldn't be or have I got something backwards?? Later..
From the chan_iax2 source (around line 3712):
if (!peer) {
ast_log(LOG_WARNING, "Unable to accept trunked packet from
'%s:%d':
No matching peer\n", intoa(sin.sin_addr), ntohs(sin.sin_port));
return 1;
}
A friend is both a user and peer. However, I would discurage the use of
a friend as it will severely restrict your dialplan, espcially once you
are dealing with more than just a couple Asterisk boxes.
Jeremy McNamara
WipeOut wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My question is in refernece to the posting by Jeremy McNamara here..
>
> http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/2003-October/022966.html
>
> He states that in order for "trunking" to work the type has to be
> peer.. When I set mine up I did so using type=friend just to make it
> simple.. So when I read the above posting I thought well maybe my
> "trunking" has not been working properly since I set it up (It
does in
> fact work, I can make and recieve calls over the IAX connection
> without any apperent problems)..
>
> So a short while ago I opened up my conf files and tried setting the
> type to peer from friend (yes I reloaded *).. Guess what??.. The link
> no longer worked.. I then tried setting type to user and it is
> worked.. So my IAX link works as friend and user but not as peer..
> Seeing as peer was specified as the requirement in order to get an
> IAX2 trunk to work properly I am a little confused..
>
> Is my setup working when it shouldn't be or have I got something
> backwards??
>
> Later..
>
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>Hi, > >My question is in refernece to the posting by Jeremy McNamara here.. > >http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/2003-October/022966.html > >He states that in order for "trunking" to work the type has to be >peer.. When I set mine up I did so using type=friend just to make it >simple.. So when I read the above posting I thought well maybe my >"trunking" has not been working properly since I set it up (It does >in fact work, I can make and recieve calls over the IAX connection >without any apperent problems).. > >So a short while ago I opened up my conf files and tried setting the >type to peer from friend (yes I reloaded *).. Guess what??.. The >link no longer worked.. I then tried setting type to user and it is >worked.. So my IAX link works as friend and user but not as peer.. >Seeing as peer was specified as the requirement in order to get an >IAX2 trunk to work properly I am a little confused.. > >Is my setup working when it shouldn't be or have I got something backwards?? > >Later..Something isn't working right with your system, specifically. I have many IAX2 configurations set to "type=friend" and "trunk=yes" which work quite well. I will agree with Jeremy though and say that having large implementations with "type=friend" may cause you headaches in the future depending on what you want to offer to your customers. JT
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 11:39, WipeOut wrote: [snip]> He states that in order for "trunking" to work the type has to be peer.. > When I set mine up I did so using type=friend just to make it simple.. > So when I read the above posting I thought well maybe my "trunking" has > not been working properly since I set it up (It does in fact work, I can > make and recieve calls over the IAX connection without any apperent > problems).. >I think you may be confused as to what the "trunking" is. Just because you can make calls over IAX doesn't necessarily mean you have trunking working. (Trunking combines packets from multiple calls to reduce overhead.) Jared Smith
Jeremy McNamara wrote:> > A friend is both a user and peer. However, I would discurage the use > of a friend as it will severely restrict your dialplan, espcially once > you are dealing with more than just a couple Asterisk boxes. >Jeremy, Can you elaborate on how using type=friend would restrict the dialplan.. Just so I am aware of the pitfalls.. :)