[asterisk-dev] RFC 3264 - RTP media stream should be set to recvonly when recording messages via a SIP channel

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Iain McBride wrote:

> While it's more specific to the issue than the shotgun of using an 
> rtpkeepalive, it seems to me that sending silence in one direction is a 
> workaround for the root cause of the issue.  What are your thoughts on 
> adding a method to set the RTP stream attributes appropriately when we 
> intend to just receive (or send) audio?

It would certainly be useful to be able to set an Asterisk channel
(generic, not just SIP) to 'send only' or 'receive only', then allow the
channel driver to communicate that to the other endpoint whatever it may be.

-- 
Kevin P. Fleming
Director of Software Technologies
Digium, Inc. - "The Genuine Asterisk Experience" (TM)