[Asterisk-Users] IAX Passing Variables

[Douglas Garstang]

Well, this kinda sux.

We have three Asterisk servers. Phones register to a single, primary server.
When a phone on one wants to reach a phone on another, we use DUNDi to discover the destination pbx and IAX to transfer the call to the other Asterisk box. This seems to be a fairly common practice amongst Asterisk users, yes?

Well, what about setting variables before call placement? Say you want to set the variable _ALERT_INFO, to have Polycom phones auto answer? Essentially the problem is that channel variables (with the exception of caller id) are not passed from one Asterisk box to another with IAX. How have people gotten around this?

Doug.