[Asterisk-Users] Windows IAX Softphone

[Peter Svensson]

On Mon, 23 May 2005, Kanuri, Seshu (Company IT) wrote:

> FireFly is the best of the IAX softphones. Other softphones do not work
> as good as FireFly. DIAX has many bugs still. DIAX Softphone disconnects
> with Windows DLL errors everytime there is a problem in the call like
> Asterisk Channel Not available etc.

The signalling in Firefly is not robust in the facce of dropped packets. 
The retransmissions are not handled correctly, leading to lost singalling 
and hence lost calls. 

All the problems went away when we started using iaxclient-based 
softphones such as iaxcomm. 

Peter