[Asterisk-Dev] IAX vs. IAX2 - problems and notes

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Friday 30 May 2003 02:42 pm, Brian Capouch wrote:
> John Todd wrote:
> > Setting jitterbuffer=1  in my iax.conf files on both ends seems
> > to make a difference for the call dropouts.  However, I have been
> > having other IAX/IAX2 issues which have been vexing me lately so
> > I will admit I have not experimented with this fix extensively.  
> >  (other problems are relating to how hangups and timeouts are
> > treated within IAX - trying to get these worked out with mark.)
>
> FWIW I am now having pretty serious problems with calls being
> dropped that seems to be affecting things across the board--IAX2
> and SIP, Zaptel devices and ATAs, servers behind NAT as well as
> servers with public IPs.
>
> Pretty much every call gets dropped eventually, although of course
> since some of them turn out to be short by nature the effect isn't
> noticed so much on shorter calls.
>
> In the last week or two, though, many more calls are dropping in
> their first minutes, both incoming and outgoing.
>
> It has been a challenge, since I decided to try to use asterisk as
> my sole means of telephony as proof of concept, as it were . . .

Are you using AbsoluteTimeout?  We had this problem at one time,
where we weren't properly resetting the AbsoluteTimeout to 0 before
we Dial'ed.

-Tilghman