Well, this kinda sux. We have three Asterisk servers. Phones register to a single, primary server. When a phone on one wants to reach a phone on another, we use DUNDi to discover the destination pbx and IAX to transfer the call to the other Asterisk box. This seems to be a fairly common practice amongst Asterisk users, yes? Well, what about setting variables before call placement? Say you want to set the variable _ALERT_INFO, to have Polycom phones auto answer? Essentially the problem is that channel variables (with the exception of caller id) are not passed from one Asterisk box to another with IAX. How have people gotten around this? Doug.
Use __ALERT_INFO and IAX...> -----Original Message----- > From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users- > bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Douglas Garstang > Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 6:43 PM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: [Asterisk-Users] IAX Passing Variables > > Well, this kinda sux. > > We have three Asterisk servers. Phones register to a single, primary > server. > When a phone on one wants to reach a phone on another, we use DUNDi to > discover the destination pbx and IAX to transfer the call to the other > Asterisk box. This seems to be a fairly common practice amongstAsterisk> users, yes? > > Well, what about setting variables before call placement? Say you wantto> set the variable _ALERT_INFO, to have Polycom phones auto answer? > Essentially the problem is that channel variables (with the exceptionof> caller id) are not passed from one Asterisk box to another with IAX.How> have people gotten around this? > > Doug. > > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Well, this kinda sux. We have three Asterisk servers. Phones register to a single, primary server. When a phone on one wants to reach a phone on another, we use DUNDi to discover the destination pbx and IAX to transfer the call to the other Asterisk box. This seems to be a fairly common practice amongst Asterisk users, yes? Well, what about setting variables before call placement? Say you want to set the variable _ALERT_INFO, to have Polycom phones auto answer? Essentially the problem is that channel variables (with the exception of caller id) are not passed from one Asterisk box to another with IAX. How have people gotten around this? Doug.
----- Douglas Garstang <dgarstang@oneeighty.com> wrote:> Well, what about setting variables before call placement? Say > you want to set the variable _ALERT_INFO, to have Polycom > phones auto answer? Essentially the problem is that channel > variables (with the exception of caller id) are not passed > from one Asterisk box to another with IAX. How have people > gotten around this?With SIP people use SIPHEADER() to send and receive custom headers across the Asterisk servers; with IAX2 I don't think anyone has built a reasonable way of doing it yet. There was some discussion at AstriDevCon about adding the ability to transfer channel variables across an IAX2 call, but nobody has written the code yet. -- Kevin P. Fleming Senior Software Engineer Digium, Inc.
Well, this kinda sux. We have three Asterisk servers. Phones register to a single, primary server. When a phone on one wants to reach a phone on another, we use DUNDi to discover the destination pbx and IAX to transfer the call to the other Asterisk box. This seems to be a fairly common practice amongst Asterisk users, yes? Well, what about setting variables before call placement? Say you want to set the variable _ALERT_INFO, to have Polycom phones auto answer? Essentially the problem is that channel variables (with the exception of caller id) are not passed from one Asterisk box to another with IAX. How have people gotten around this? Doug.
On Jun 8, 2006, at 11:04 AM, Douglas Garstang wrote:> Well, this kinda sux.What? You repeating yourself ad nauseam? I agree. Marty
Martin Joseph wrote:> > On Jun 8, 2006, at 11:04 AM, Douglas Garstang wrote: > >> Well, this kinda sux. > What? You repeating yourself ad nauseam? I agree. > > Marty > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-usersI have one word for your response: NICE. -- Joshua Colp Software Developer Digium P - 256-428-6066 C - 506-878-0147 jcolp@digium.com
> -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Joseph [mailto:ast@stillnewt.org] > Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 1:34 PM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] RE: IAX Passing Variables > > > > On Jun 8, 2006, at 11:04 AM, Douglas Garstang wrote: > > > Well, this kinda sux. > What? You repeating yourself ad nauseam? I agree.Yeah, I tend to do that when no one responds.
Douglas Garstang wrote:> Well, this kinda sux. >Not as bad as you posting this same message to the list, over and over again for days on end. List Daddy: help!! B. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 04:44:38PM -0600, Douglas Garstang wrote:> > -----Original Message----- > > From: Martin Joseph [mailto:ast@stillnewt.org] > > Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 1:34 PM > > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] RE: IAX Passing Variables > > > > > > > > On Jun 8, 2006, at 11:04 AM, Douglas Garstang wrote: > > > > > Well, this kinda sux. > > What? You repeating yourself ad nauseam? I agree. > > Yeah, I tend to do that when no one responds.This can generally server to reduce your status and your chance of getting replies. In that case, you better reply to you original message, or refer to it. It can also help to detail what you tried to check in the interim. Alternatively, maybe people cannot give you a good answer. So try rephrasing your question. Maybe give some more details on whatever it is that you try to do. Maybe someone could propose an alternative solution. -- Tzafrir Cohen sip:tzafrir@local.xorcom.com icq#16849755 iax:tzafrir@local.xorcom.com +972-50-7952406 tzafrir.cohen@xorcom.com http://www.xorcom.com