asterisk users - Jun 2004 - iax.conf : what is the purpose of trunk ?

Sorry for the stupid question:

What's the purpose of defining a peer as trunk in iax.conf ?

The question is also valid generally speaking (for other channel
types), for instance: why define a Zap group as trunk in
extension.conf ?

Tnx for any help !
  

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 Alessio                          mailto:afoc@interconnessioni.it

Trunking multiplexes all the traffic over a single IAX connection. 


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> -----Original Message-----
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> Alessio Focardi
> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 7:21 AM
> To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] iax.conf : what is the purpose of trunk ?
> 
> Sorry for the stupid question:
> 
> What's the purpose of defining a peer as trunk in iax.conf ?
> 
> The question is also valid generally speaking (for other 
> channel types), for instance: why define a Zap group as trunk 
> in extension.conf ?
> 
> Tnx for any help !
>   
> 
> --
> Best regards,
>  Alessio                          mailto:afoc@interconnessioni.it
> 
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by combine different connection, it reduces the ip overhead.