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

[Steve Totaro]

> Company meeting. Strange one. They want to improve morale. They want ideas
> on how to have fun, like outings and such.

I worked at a company that had wine and cheese Fridays.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Tom Ivar
> Helbekkmo
> Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 12:23 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> 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
> -- 
> Tom Ivar Helbekkmo, Senior System Administrator, EUnet Norway Hosting
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