[Asterisk-Users] How do i "talk" to the IAXy...? (Newbie Alert)

[Arthur B Olsen]

I think you need that provisioning tool from digium. And you need a unix 
system to compile and run it. I dont think theres any port to your OS.

Sorry...

On Saturday 08 January 2005 08:08, Daiku wrote:
> Hi,
>
> hoping that experienced hands will quickly show me the right way: after a
> fruitless web search i am turning to this list with my rather elementary
> question: is there any other way to communicate with the IAXy besides using
> special utility software that needs to be compiled under UNIX?
>
> Here is the story: about two months ago, after some not very satisfactory
> attempts at using SIP (my phone adapter and router don't seem to be able to
> handle SIP's special requirements for free passage through umpteen ports),
> i decided to try out hat i think is the conceptually better alternative
> anyway, IAX, and signed up with "Diamondcards", a phone service provider
> using the IAX protocol. And today the post office delivered the IAXy
> adapter that i ordered from Digium (i had it shipped surface mail since i
> live in Okinawa and would have had to pay ovcer 50 bucks for air delivery).
>
> To my surprise there was no manual, not even a single sheet with
> instructions, in the package, but i quickly found a setup guide on Digium's
> website. However, i can't make much sense of the rather sparse instructions
> about "provisioning" the box (what's the difference between "configuring"
> and "provisioning"?). All i want to do is to tell the device my user ID, my
> password, and the server i want to connect to, but, as i found out at
> http://ruk.ca/article/2501 , "while the Sipura unit has a friendly
> web-based configuration tool, the IAXy requires compiling a small Unix
> utility which is then used to provision the IAXy".
>
> Well, my two computers are Macs from the OS 7 era, so there is no way i can
> compile or run that utility to talk to the IAXy. And although i played
> around a bit with the telephone and even got the dial tone to come up once
> by punching some random number on the keypad, i am not optimistic that it
> is actually possible to configure the IAXy via the telephone's key pad - i
> couldn't find anything about this topic on the web.
>
> So... how can i get the IAXy to work?
>
> Thank you in advance: H. Daiku
>
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>
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