[Asterisk-Dev] H.323 channel driver problems

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Chih-Wei Huang wrote:

> This is my first mail to the mailing list.
> I'm a developer of VoIP, especially in H.323 field,
> but I'm totally new to Asterisk.
> Recently I began to play Asterisk, including the H323 driver.
> I could play IVR, transfer a call, and make an H323 call to
> SIP client, and vice versa. What a nice project!!

Thanks! Your first mail was very well written, but please in the future 
refrain from sending HTML mail and try to configure your email client to 
send text in ISO-8859-1 instead of Big5, since the primary language and 
readership of this list speak English.

> The version I have tested is 1.0.5.
> As Jeremy(the H323 driver author) suggested, I began
> to play the CVS head version.
> But the latest H323 driver seems totally broken.
> Neither inbound nor outbound call can work.

Yes, Jeremy is correct. chan_h323 in Asterisk is not in good shape, and 
I believe most users are using the oh323 channel, which is maintained 
outside of Asterisk CVS.

> I hope someone can explain the logic so a proper fix can be found.

While your comments are useful, I believe that Digium has an entirely 
new H.323 channel driver in the works and may be replacing chan_h323 
soon (at least that was talked about at last week's VON show). It might 
be a good idea to contact them directly (since the relevant people don't 
monitor this list) and confirm that, before you spend any more time 
working on chan_h323. You might even be able to help them test and 
integrate the new driver, since you have so much experience with the 
protocol.