[Asterisk-Users] IAXTEL and the registration traffic

[Stephen Davies]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Rich Adamson wrote:

> > I have an full-time Internet connection with a limited amount of traffic per
> > month included in the subscription.
> > What can I do to reduce the registration traffic with IAXTEL which makes
> > about 10MB/h?
> > There is any way to keep the registration active ( I have a static IP
> > address) without the need to register all the time?
> 
> Dan,
> 
> Sounds like something is not set up correctly or something else is happening.
> I just used a sniffer to qualify my connection, and over a 24 minute period 
> there was a total of 13,379 bytes of traffic (no calls). Analyzing the actual 
> packets indicates five packets occur every 49.7 seconds, and those packets 
> (with headers) contained a total of 426 bytes.
> 
> If I did the math correctly, that would suggest 10 megabytes of traffic every
> 13.5 days (not per hour).
> 
> Rich

Hi,

Perhaps its that Dan's box is trying to register with IAX1?  All the
attempts cause quite a flurry if the other side doesn't want to know.

On my system I used 

noload => chan_iax.so

in my /etc/asterisk/modules.conf to get rid of iax1.

Steve