[Asterisk-Users] IAX config documentation

[Steven Critchfield]

On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 16:08, Brian Cuthie wrote:
> Is there any documentation on configuring IAX between * machines?  I've 
> noticed references to many topics in the config files, including:
> 
> - dialplans

This is extensions.conf work. Some of it can be shared via the switch
command.

> - trunking

Trunking is easy, think of it kind of like a channelized t1. It combines
many calls into one packet with call data so as to reduce the overhead
of each individual call having it's own resources. Specifically it cuts
down on the overhead in IP, and allows you to reclaim some of the
bandwidth for more calls.

> - authentication

You do want to know who is trying to call you don't you?

> - transfers

Allows you to get out of the middle of a call. My office loves these as
our trunk lines are remote, and when we forward a call out to another
trunk line, our local asterisk machine transfers the call back to the
machine with trunk lines and removes the VoIP part of the loop.

> But before I go and try to grok 8000 lines of source (in one file, no 
> less) I was hoping that somewhere there exists even something like a man 
> page that describes the configuration options.

There is plenty of banter on the list and info scattered about that
google will find for you than reading the source. Of course, you are
free to bludgen yourself with the code if you so wish. 

> There's the beginnings of a "whitepaper" on wiki, but it's 
> self-contradictory in some places, largely incomplete, and just kind of 
> ends abruptly. Yet, it mentions that growing contingent of IAX devices. Huh.

Jump in and help finish it when you have read some and start to
understand the missing parts.
-- 
Steven Critchfield  <critch at basesys.com>