[Asterisk-Dev] I need help to make a simple iax switch/proxy

[Steve]

But IAX Sucks and SIP Works wondefully a bunch of people recently figured
out!

Why does IAX suck? Because it does. Dont question my authority

Why does SIP Work better? Because everyone says it does. You can quote me on
that :)

Have a wondeful morning.
-Steve

P.S. Ever slap a BKW with a RaInBoW Trout!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Goldenear" <goldenear at free.fr>
To: "Asterisk Developers Mailing List" <asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 3:50 AM
Subject: [Asterisk-Dev] I need help to make a simple iax switch/proxy


> Hi,
>
> I would like to make a small iax switch/proxy (I don't know which term
> is better). The need is very simple: a proxy small enought to run on a
> linux based wifi router (wrt54g) and/or simple enough to support many
> simultaneous peers. It doens't need all the bells and whistles of
> asterisk (many protocol support, voicemail, codec translation, etc ...).
>
> It simply needs to:
> - authenticate users (and keep a registered peers "database"): This is
> similar to what asterisk does with iax.conf (or realtime database),
> except that a phonenumber/extension would be directly given to a user in
> the iax.conf like file. As it's a simple proxy, it doesn't need complex
> call routing.
> - connect users: each registered user could call an other one either by
> its given phonenumber/extension or by its user name. As the proxy
> doesn't support codec translation, all peers must have a least a common
> codec. If the proxy can't make a native codec bridging between the
> peers, the call is aborded. Also the proxy should always try to do
> native transfer (with a option to drop the call if it's not possible).
> When peers are "connected" and speaking, the proxy should (or must) not
> stay in the path.
> - maintain an online users directory (with the possiblity to publish a
> web page), a little bit like the h323 ils system.
> - register itself to an asterisk server (or a other iax switch/proxy):
> This would be useful to define a default gateway if an extension doesn't
> exist localy.
> - make coffee, but only when all other features are working ;)
>
> I hope you understand what I would like to do. Alas, I'm not a
> programmer. I only have a few C basis (php is the only language I really
> know). That's why I really need help. I guess I'm not the only one
> interrested in an iax2 softswith/proxy. I think such a project could be
> useful in many cases (e.g. be used as an asterisk frontend for iax
> peers, like SER can be for sip peers). Also, I guess that, using libiax,
> it should not be too complicated / time consuming to do for a real
> programmer :)
> So I hope somebody will be interrested in this project and can help me.
> I can even offer $100 as a bounty for it :)
>
> Any comment / suggestion is welcome
>
> Thanks.
>
> regards,
>
> Nicolas
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