[Asterisk-Users] iax.conf qualify=yes not working?

[Steve Kann]

Brent Goran wrote:

> We have many IAXy devices in the field now.
>
> In all cases, in iax.conf, we have "qualify=yes", so that using "iax2 
> show peers", we can see whether or not the device is currently online.
>
> In some cases, the IAXy device and/or Asterisk are not communicating 
> their qualification, because "iax2 show peers" shows the device as 
> status UNKNOWN. However, when a user picks up the telephone plugged 
> into the IAXy, they can place a call just fine within our Asterisk server.
>
> Can anyone tell me if there are any conditions which might affect the 
> functioning of the "qualify" feature, while still allowing outbound 
> calls to go through? 


Yes, if the iax endpoint doesn't respond to IAX POKE frames with a PONG.

iaxclient-based softphones (and, actually, anything based on libiax2) 
didn't do this until about code went it about 2 weeks ago.. 

I guess the iaxy is loosely based on libiax2, and may not implement this.

-SteveK