[Asterisk-Users] IAXy setup

[Matt Schulte]

I agree, I got my first IAXy yesterday. I couldn't for the life of me
get DHCP to work, then I remember it was plugged into a VLAN on a Cisco
Switch (3550). Spanning tree always "waits" to bring up the vlan on
ports, unless specified otherwise. It would appear the IAXy only sends
an initial DHCP request and then it's hit or miss. DNS support would be
great, that's why there is an altserver, I would guess. Speaking of
which, I'm going to put up a new post on echo avoidance with the IAXy.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Van Meggelen [mailto:jim at digitalchemy.ca] 


>Actually, the IAXy is really very immature, and is desperate for
several
>enhancements:

1. The MAC address needs to be visible on the unit. As it stands the
only way to determine the identity of the thing is >packet sniffing or
looking through logs. This is tolerable in a lab, but ridiculous in
production. What if I want to
program 100 of them, and assign IP addresses based on MAC addresses? 2.
DNS support. The IAXy needs to be able to handle names. 3. Restore to
factory. There is currently no documented method to resore an IAXy to
factory defaults. This means that if you have a stock of them that may
or may not have been pre-configured, you'll need to do more packet
sniffing to figure out what the IP address is. 4. Some kind of TFTP, SSH
or whatever is needed to allow connection and configuration of the
device.

I also love the IAXy (I use them happily in my lab), but it is much more
of a beta device at this point. I really couldn't feel comfortable
deploying them at customer locations until the management functions are
improved.

It'll get there I'm sure.