asterisk users - Jan 2005 - IAXy's apparantly failing in the field

I am not sure if this is the place for Digium user-to-user discussion,
but...

We have deployed many (20+) IAXy's in the field. At a couple of
locations, the IAXy's have just stopped working after 1 or 2 days use.
No lights go on, no DHCP lease is renewed as far as we can tell, and of
course no dialtone and no registration with the server.

Has anyone else experienced high failure rate with these devices?


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Ouch, sorry to hear that you bought 20 of those damn things.

I'd recommend you provision them up with a static. The IAXy doesn't
really use dhcp, it uses a mix breed of bootp and dhcp which works on
only certain implementations of dhcp with varying degrees of success.

Since it is acting more along the lines of bootp, it never renews a
lease. Perhaps your server releases the address and gives it to dhcp
user causing an ip conflict and knocking your IAXy off the network.

My only advice is to avoid the IAXy like the plague. My advice, get a
few Sipura's. They are cheaper and work great with Asterisk.

As much as I want to help out with the development of asterisk, I
can't justify using the horribly designed IAXy with all it's
shortcomings.


On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 15:49:28 -0700, Brent Goran <brent@netmeme.org>
wrote:
>  I am not sure if this is the place for Digium user-to-user discussion,
> but...
>  
>  We have deployed many (20+) IAXy's in the field. At a couple of
locations,
> the IAXy's have just stopped working after 1 or 2 days use. No lights
go on,
> no DHCP lease is renewed as far as we can tell, and of course no dialtone
> and no registration with the server.
>  
>  Has anyone else experienced high failure rate with these devices?
>  
>  
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> We have deployed many (20+) IAXy's in the field. At a couple of
> locations, the IAXy's have just stopped working after 1 or 2 days use.
> No lights go on, no DHCP lease is renewed as far as we can tell, and of
> course no dialtone and no registration with the server.
I bought two of them, both of them experienced problems with 2 weeks, one 
died completely within 3.  I'm going back to using Grandstream 286 
devices.....

Paul

> At a couple of locations,
> the IAXy's have just stopped working after 1 or 2 days use. No lights
go on,
> no DHCP lease is renewed as far as we can tell, and of course no dialtone
> and no registration with the server.
I had that problem intermittently while using a 1A power supply. The
behavior you mention happened from time to time and eventually the
IAXy died. When I tried a regulated 1500ma supply, it came back to
life. Worth checking on if you have any doubts.

Yes, the IAXy has faults, but until other IAX2 devices ship, it's the
only game in town. I know that the Farfon device will be out soon and
we'll be able to judge its quality at that time.