[asterisk-dev] possibly dumb IAX question

[Tim Panton]

On 2 Apr 2007, at 06:40, Ast Exp wrote:

> I have what may be a dumb IAX (and possibly SIP) question here, but I
> wanted a clear answer
>
>
> What would happen if Asterisk received a SIP connection with two media
> streams, and that needed to be connected to an IAX (or to a lesser
> extent a SIP) client registered with Asterisk? The case I am thinking
> of is the first media stream being either voice or video (h.264), and
> the second stream being some unidentified binary protocol used to send
> mechanism control data to a remote control device.
>
> It wasn't clear to me how the IAX protocol handles two concurrent
> media streams to the same endpoint.

If you mean 2 streams within the same Call...
It doesn't. IAX assumes that the media stream contains the
necessary data multiplexed into one stream at the codec level.

However if you want to send 'mechanism control data' there are a
number of messages that might be appropriate depending on the
nature of the data.

There was a discussion a while back about how best to extend IAX
to carry arbitrary call related status and command data, the conclusion
of which was that for the moment you either have to wrap it up in ascii
and send it in a Text frame or extend the protocol with a new message  
type
to cover it.

Tim.