[Asterisk-Users] IAXy setup

[Jim Van Meggelen]

As with so many things, perspective determines impressions.

If I look at the IAXy from the perspective of a guy in his lab with his
Asterisk, then this thing sets up about as painlessly as anything could.
I like it a lot.

But if one looks at it from the perspective of a solutions provider,
possibly needing to deploy these by the dozens, hundreds or thousands, a
desire to optimize the process surfaces. The management interface to the
IAXy does not lend itself to mass deployments, and that is the source of
my criticism.

I, personally, found the IAXy a breeze to configure. But when I look at
them as a project manager or implementer, there are some glaring
shortcomings that I'd love to see fixed.

And I definitely misspoke if I gave the impression that I wanted a web
interface. That doesn't interest me nearly as much as being able to
assign the MAC address to a DHCP server, and letting the IAXy grab it's
personality though a bootstrap mechanism.

And some sort of telnet/SSH interface, even a really ugly hex-based one,
or possibly some funky DTMF interface via the FXS port would be HUGE.

It's a wish list, ya know?



> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com 
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
> Steve Totaro
> Sent: October 17, 2004 6:15 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] IAXy setup
> 
> 
> yup it is, just not a web interface like what I thought the 
> writer was implying.  I thought setting it up was a breeze.  
> No complaints here.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jim Van Meggelen" <jim at digitalchemy.ca>
> To: "'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial 
> Discussion'" <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2004 4:35 PM
> Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] IAXy setup
> 
> 
> > Telnet is a standard, is it not?
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> > > [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On 
> Behalf Of Steve 
> > > Totaro
> > > Sent: October 17, 2004 2:58 PM
> > > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> > > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] IAXy setup
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > Sorry, but I CAN'T see why this is the case. Again, I'm
> > > back to my
> > > > > > argument that there's plenty of devices in the same price
> > > > > range that
> > > > > > have all kinds of administrative flexibility. Think about
> > > > > this: why is
> > > > > > the IAXy stuck using a non-standard administrative
> > > > > interface? That is
> > > > > > very uncommon in the world of networking hardware.
> > >
> > >
> > > I guess you dont use telnet on many Cisco routers do you?
> > >
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