[Asterisk-Users] kiax - iax2 softphone

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 06:31:28PM -0000, undrhil.1528785 at bloglines.com wrote:
> Has anyone on here used kiax before?  I am asking because I have it installed
> on several computers and have been able to get it to connect and register
> to my Asterisk box.  I can even call between them and my SIP softphones. 
> The problem I am having is this: when I use kiax to call someone else, they
> get some kind of background music playing while I am talking to them.  I have
> called from kiax to kiax phone and get this on both ends but I cannot identify
> what it is or where it's playing from.  I've watched the CLI when I make the
> call and there is no indication of playing music on hold or background music.
>  The dialplan doesn't even reference music on hold, it just dials whichever
> phone I am trying to call.
> 
> So, I am wondering if this is something which
> I need to set in kiax and if anyone who has used kiax might be able to give
> me a hint on where I can disable this at.  I would prefer to use an IAX softphone
> since it only requires one port to be open into my firewall, but kiax is the
> only one I've found for free.  Once I get Asterisk up and running properly,
> I'll probably buy a couple of licenses for a good quality softphone, but until
> then, free is the best for me.  :)

http://iaxclient.sf.net/iaxcomm/

Will probably do for testing. The user interface could use some work.

> 
> So, any ideas?

No. But some obvious follow-up questions would be:

1. have you tried any other IAX clients (using the same IAX "line")
2. ixconf, extensions.conf, CLI trace?

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