[Asterisk-Users] Outgoing Ringback Indications IAX vs. SIP

[Steve Feinstein]

Actually it makes no difference.  I tried it in an attempt to get 
something to happen.

Thanks,
-Steve

Eric "ManxPower" Wieling wrote:
> What happens if you remove the "r" option?  "r" is almost NEVER useful.
>
> Steve Feinstein wrote:
>> I've been pulling my hair out over this one trying to understand it.
>>
>> If you have a very simple extension:
>>
>> exten => 1,n,Dial(IAX2/Steve|24|r)
>>
>> Everything I've seen says this should tell the IAX phone (our own 
>> iaxclient based one) to make a ringing sound, or asterisk should make 
>> the ringback indication itself if it determines that the channel 
>> can't do it for itself.
>>
>> But you can dial this extension all day and you never hear a ringback 
>> indication.  Dial it from a SIP softphone and you do.  If you change 
>> the default country in the indications.conf, the SIP phone will 
>> change the way the ring sounds.  IAX, still nothing.
>>
>> You can use PlayTones(ring) in the dialplan before the Dial(), and it 
>> seems to behave ok.  Playing the appropriate ring indication until 
>> the call is answered.  But it seems like the behavior is inconsistent 
>> with IAX vs. SIP.  Is this by design?
>>
>> All the IAX soft phones I've tried are based on the same iaxclient 
>> libs, so it's hard to know if it's the phone or asterisk that's not 
>> behaving right.  Has anyone used an iax hard phone, some other IAX 
>> device/software, and does it exhibit the same behavior?  Or is this a 
>> problem with the iax code not being telling asterisk that IAX phones 
>> need to have their indications faked.
>>
>> Any ideas about what's going on would be most gratefully appreciated.
>>
>>
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