[asterisk-dev] IAX still broken

[Russell Bryant]

Anton wrote:
> Just want to notice that IAX2 proto is still broken, I've 
> tried asterisk 1.4.11 in production environment with IAX2 
> instead SIP. After a few days of operation IAX2 becomes 
> one-way audio until asterisk is restarted. But again - for 
> a few more days and ~1000 calls. BTW the same behavior was 
> even in early 1.4-trunk, even before it was released. And 
> still. I've just reverted links to be SIP again. 1.2 does 
> not have this problem with IAX - I was using it quite long 
> before switching to 1.4 with no problem. While writing this 
> I've found that my other 1.4.12 IAX2 connected gateway 
> stopped properly ORIGINATING IAX2 calls at all - to another 
> gateway to PRI links, which IS 1.2.14 - After Asterisk 
> 1.4.12 reload - It started working back again, so the 
> problem not in 1.2.14.
> 
> BTW: The scheme is *VOIP<-SIP>Asterisk<- IAX2 >Asterisk SS7 
> I'm using SS7 on my PSTN gateways, but I doubt that 
> chan_ss7 anyhow influences on this, since SIP does not 
> starting behaving one-way audio.

Please try 1.4.12.  I made a _lot_ of fixes to chan_iax2 in that release,
including various deadlock fixes which could solve your "one way audio" problems.

-- 
Russell Bryant
Senior Software Engineer
Open Source Team Lead
Digium, Inc.