[Asterisk-Users] iaxclients missing calls

[firedude at shorelinuxsolutions.com]

Speaking for me personally, I have experienced the problem when not using 
NAT.  The particular incidents I referenced dealt with an asterisk server 
and client, both being on the 192.168.22 network.
AJ


On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Patrick Cantwell wrote:

> Just a thought:  Out of everyone having problems, how many are connecting
> through NAT to their asterisk server? (client -> nat -> ... -> asterisk).
> 
> NAT firewalls time ports out after a certain amount of inactivity.  I was
> having the same problem with my SIP analog adapter.  I could fire it up and
> receive calls, but after a little while, it could no longer receive calls
> (yet asterisk would show them coming in).  If I made a call out from the
> analog phone, I could again receive calls for a short while.  Then it
> occurred to me that I probably didn't change my firewall rules after
> renumbering my asterisk box and it was a NAT issue.
> 
> If anybody having this problem is running behind some sort of NAT device,
> try making your registration time rediculously low, such as 60s and see if
> it has an effect. (or try changing your rules, if possible)
> 
> Just my .02 =)
> 
> -Pat
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com]On Behalf Of Michael Van
> Donselaar
> Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 11:25 PM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] iaxclients missing calls
> 
> 
> On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 23:05:56 -0500 (EST), firedude at shorelinuxsolutions.com
> wrote:
> 
> >Hello All
> >When I open up iaxcomm, it registers fine with the asterisk server.  If I
> >call into it, iaxcomm will ring; however if I leave iaxcomm sitting idle
> >for awhile (I haven't figured out exactly how long) it seems to miss
> >calls.  I can see the calls coming in on the asterisk server but they
> >never ring through on iaxcomm.  If I close it and reopen it, it takes
> >calls again fine.  I thought I saw someone else who had experienced this
> >problem too but I don't recall seeing a solution.  Any thoughts or
> >solutions?  I'm trying to use iaxcomm in my every daybusiness but it's kind
> of
> >hard when I miss calls.  It complicates things a bit.  Although I used
> >iaxcomm as an example here I've experienced the same problem with DIAX.
> >
> >Thanks a bunch.
> >AJ
> 
> Hi, AJ.
> 
> It sounds like this is related to the other incoming ring issue.  I'll check
> through the archives to verify, but I think a couple of other users were
> seeing
> this even soon after launching iaxComm or DIAX.
> 
> I'm wondering if the iaxclient lib might be having a problem with
> registration
> renewal, or if it's a problem with event dispatching.
> 
> Any other users seen this yet? (That is, seen incoming ring failures become
> more
> likely as uptime increases).
> 
> The next time you get an ignored incoming call, could you try doing an iax2
> debug on the cli?
> 
> Do you see the same problem with DIAX when using IAX instead of IAX2?
> 
> 
> >
> >
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