[Asterisk-Users] Windows IAX soft phone

[William Flanagan]

Eric-

Thanks for answering.  Maybe a Stupid Question.  If you have two IAX
softphones connecting to the same destination, how does it manage it on the
receiving end.  It seems like that would work great for point to point
connections, but if you have more than one session up (and I would think for
example into a voicemail server you'd have multiple connections up, to the
mixer for a 3 way conference, etc.) how is the port addressing managed?

Thanks,

William

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Wieling" <eric at fnords.org>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 3:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Windows IAX soft phone


> SIP negotiates the port numbers it will use for voice for each call.
> The call setup is done via port 5060 but the voice packets use
> dynamically allocated ports and so firewalls don't know what ports to
> deal with when doing NAT.  IAX does NOT negotiate the port numbers for
> the voice stream, it always uses the same port number.
>
> On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 14:27, William Flanagan wrote:
> > All-
> >
> > Why is this the case?  Is it that it uses TCP?  Is it the protocol?  Is
it
> > that it works better through NATs?  Is it just more mature than the SIP
or
> > MGCP implementation?  What's the reason for it?  A protocol is a
protocol in
> > my book.  I'm trying to understand why the IAX protocol would work sooo
much
> > better.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > William
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Dan" <dtoma at fx.ro>
> > To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 2:04 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Windows IAX soft phone
> >
> >
> > > Not better.... A LOT BETTER...
> > >
> > > ;-)
> > > Dan
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > > From: "William Flanagan" <williameflanagan at hotmail.com>
> > > To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 8:21 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Windows IAX soft phone
> > >
> > >
> > > > Hey all,
> > > >
> > > > Why does the IAX client have better reliabilty than a SIP client?
I'm
> > > just
> > > > curious.
> > > >
> > > > William
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > > > From: "Dan" <dtoma at fx.ro>
> > > > To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 2:53 AM
> > > > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Windows IAX soft phone
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > It is great.
> > > > > I works far better than any other software phone (X-Lite or
SJPhone)
> > > when
> > > > > you are over an unreliable connection.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > Dan
> > > > > P.S.  A local volume control (mic and speaker) and source selector
> > will
> > > be
> > > > a
> > > > > great add-on.
> > > > >
> > > > > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > > > > From: <wasim at convergence.com.pk>
> > > > > To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> > > > > Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 8:22 AM
> > > > > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Windows IAX soft phone
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > yep... iaxclient.sf.net
> > > > > >
> > > > > >  - wasim
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Dan wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > There is any Windows IAX based soft phone available?
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