[Asterisk-Users] why even use SIP

[Sys Admin]

just called digium using firefly softphone connected to a asterisk
server using IAX2 they said that the IAXy device is not in stock and
the earliest expected arrival is after a month.

On a dell insipiron 600m laptop with 512 MB RAM each time i maximize
or minimize even a small application like putty the firefly softphone
looses sound for 1/2 a second.  Why is the softphone application so
bad that it can not even handle another application being maximized
and minimized. This really throws me off !!

t


On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 12:07:24 -0500, Dana Olson <rickaster at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 15:34:26 -0000, Giles Coochey
> <giles.coochey at mirada-solutions.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > How about scanning for it's mac address?
> > > http://ipscan.sf.net/ipscan.exe
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > http://www.umich2.com
> > >
> > >
> > > Digium doesn't label the MAC address on the device, unless it's such a
> > > fine print that no one can read it. I believe this has been said a few
> > > times in the conversation.
> >
> > Connect it with a cross-over ethernet cable to a Linux box and run
> > tcpdump on the Linux box, before long you'll see the IP address come up
> > on the tcpdump logs. Don't power it off, you want it to have an existing
> > DHCP lease.
> >
> > If you don't see any traffic, try making a call. Once you have the IP
> > you can put it back on the normal network and configure it.
> 
> I know how to work around these limitations already.
> 
> My point is that this is not an enterprise-ready solution. If I order
> 1000 of these for our IT staff, I have to go through each and every
> one with a crossover cable just to find the IP? Why would we bother
> when there so many other devices that don't have any of the flaws of
> the IAXy?
> 
> Of course they are SIP-only, so that's the answer to the question of
> "why use SIP at all." Because there is no good solution for IAX yet.
> 
> With a little work, the IAXy can become a product not only for
> hobbyists but for the corporate world as well. Until then, we will
> need to rely on Sipura, Grandstream, and the like for devices that can
> be much easier provisioned, either by keypad entry on the device
> itself, TFTP config files, or an HTTP interface, that support DNS name
> resolution, G729/iLBC/GSM codecs, have their MAC addresses labeled on
> them, etc.
> 
> This is for my company only. Perhaps yours isn't so large and you have
> the time and desire to go through this process for every device in
> your organization, but we don't.
> 
> Yes, for home users who run Asterisk, it's fine, except if they want
> to take the IAXy on the road with them and they don't have a static IP
> address. For internal use in a small company, yeah, the IAXy may be a
> fine solution. But when you're looking at purchasing hundreds of
> devices at a time, I don't think this is a good product at this time.
> 
> All of that said, I like the IAXy, and I will gladly recommend buying
> it if you're not in my position, or if Digium develops it further to
> address these issues.
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