[Asterisk-Users] Budgettone + G729

[John Todd]

>many thanks!
>it's all pretty much a hit & miss process
>becaues of Asterisk's notorious lack of documentation..
>
>I will try this out at my client tomorrow,
>fingers crossed.
>
>cheers
>Dave
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "T Aksoy" <tan at yointernet.com>
>To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
>Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 1:25 PM
>Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Budgettone + G729
>
>
>>  Hi,
>>
>>  Unless there has been a recent change, you can't set codecs in the
>sip.conf
>>  on a per-context basis. The way to do what you want is to have the
>following
>>  in the [general] area:
>>
>>  disallow=all
>>  allow=ulaw
>>  allow=alaw
>>  allow=g729
>>
>>  Then, set all the codec preferences on the g729 phone to g729. That phone
>>  should then only be able to negotiate g729. If this doesn't work then I
>>  suspect some sort of g729 codec installation error?
>>
>>  Tan
>>
>>
>>  -----Original Message-----
>>  From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com
>>  [mailto:asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com]On Behalf Of Dave Alan
>>  Caruana
>>  Sent: 03 October 2003 11:49
>>  To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
>>  Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Budgettone + G729
>>
>>
>>  hi there ..
>>  I asked sometime ago regarding getting a Budgettone
>>  working with Asterisk over G729.
>>
>>  My system is quite simple, Asterisk server with 1 G 729 license
>>  installed, and 10 Grandstream phones. Only one of them needs
>>  G729, because it's on a remote link via an ADSL bridge. The
>>  rest run happily on G711 on a local network.
>>
>>  I added the lines
>>
>>  disallow=all
>>  allow=g729
>>
>>  to the sip.conf entry for that particular phone,
>>  but it doesn't seem to have made any difference.
>>  If I remove the "allow = g729" line, which supposedly
>>  should leave no codecs at all, the phone still works,
>>  on G711. With the allow=g729 line in place, and switching
>>  off all codec options except g729 from the phone, when
>>  I try to for example dial extension 1000, which should
>>  give me Asterisk's welcome message, I get a message
>>  about "no matching codecs" on the asterisk console,
>>  so obviously the g729 codec isn't working.
>>
>>  Can somebody help?
>>
>>  cheers
>  > Dave
>  >


Another point to reference is that there is a feature request in the 
system to allow/disallow codecs on a per-peer basis:

http://bugs.digium.com/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0000198

JT