[Asterisk-Users] Re: Asterisk refuses to use anything but g729

[Matthew Boehm]

Never fails...about 5 min after I post something I find it myself.

Thanks Tom..
Matthew
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Ivar Helbekkmo" <tih at eunetnorge.no>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"
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Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 11:22 AM
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Re: Asterisk refuses to use anything but g729


> "Matthew Boehm" <mboehm at cytelcom.com> writes:
>
> > This is really stupid behavior of asterisk. I have an ATA and an IP
> > phone that I have set to use 711. These two devices MUST use 711
> > because they are for faxing. I have some other phones that are set
> > to use 729. In my sip.conf:
> >
> > disallow=all
> > allow=g729
> > allow=ulaw
> > allow=alaw
> > allow=gsm
> >
> > The phones that are set to 729 work great. However, the other phones
> > do not use 711. Asterisk FORCES them to use 729 when I have
> > EXPLICITLY set the devices to use 711. WHY is asterisk forcing these
> > devices to use something I told them not to use?
>
> I guess you've got this in the [general] section, then?  The codec
> list there is a specification of which codecs are allowed, and they
> are listed in order of priority.  Thus, with your list, anything that
> *can* speak g729 *will* do so.  You can override that, in individual
> per-phone sections in the file:
>
> [faxmachine]
> disallow=all
> allow=ulaw
>
> -tih
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