asterisk users - Mar 2004 - IAX2 transfers - it's great!!!!

I have a network of IAX servers connecting to each other. I just realized that
IAX does some
clever magic by itself. Let me explain:
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Let's say you have three servers: A, B and Q

A calls B with IAX2
B connects the call to Q with IAX2
B realizes that A can speak directly with Q and transfers the call so A speaks
directly to Q without
any further involvement of B.

So you can easily build a mesh network with IAX2 where every call takes the
optimal route without
you bothering with it.

Sometimes stuff just works.
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If this is documented on the Wiki, I must spend time reading the Wiki again,
because I wasn't aware
of this cleverness in IAX2.

It was a very pleasant surprise.

And yes, there's a config in iax.conf so you can turn it off if you for some
reason want
to bother B with staying in the middle of the call.

Good luck IAX'ing :-)
/Olle

> And yes, there's a config in iax.conf so you can turn it off if you
> for some reason want to bother B with staying in the middle of the
> call.  
Yap. Great stuff :)

Just so everyone knows the config is: notransfer=yes

It would be good to know what happens with cdr records and call control?