[asterisk-dev] 'IAX2 call variable passing between servers '

Douglas Garstang dgarstang at oneeighty.com
Mon Aug 7 12:33:34 MST 2006


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin P. Fleming [mailto:kpfleming at digium.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 12:45 PM
> To: Asterisk Developers Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-dev] 'IAX2 call variable passing 
> between servers
> '
> 
> 
> ----- Douglas Garstang <dgarstang at oneeighty.com> wrote:
> > The endpoint, UA-B, is a sip phone. How can an IAX2 call be 
> placed to
> > the new destination?
> 
> Please ask questions that make a little more sense... if the 
> new destination is (for example) extension 3001 in the SIP 
> peer's dialing context, and that extension ends up pointing 
> to an IAX2 endpoint, then of course the outbound call that 
> will be placed will be an IAX2 call.

I'm having a little trouble understanding how a Polycom 601 phone that has no knowledge of IAX can receive an IAX call. It may make perfect sense to you, but it doesn't to me. 

> 
> However, you keep referring to these calls being 'flagged as 
> IAX2 calls when they are SIP calls', which sounds like 
> something that your AGI script (or something else) is doing, 
> not Asterisk. Asterisk doesn't 'flag' calls as being any 
> particular type, so unless you can provide an example of 
> exactly what Asterisk is supposedly doing wrong, I don't 
> think you have actually demonstrated any problem in Asterisk at all.

I am referring to the agi_type variable that Asterisk passes to an AGI script when it calls it. It is being set to IAX2, not SIP.


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