[asterisk-users] T.38 and reinvite

[David Backeberg]

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Kevin P. Fleming<kpfleming at digium.com> wrote:
> David Backeberg wrote:
>
>> Because of this behavior, and because you want to disable the reinvite
>> for normal audio calls, I think you will have a to use a separate SIP
>> trunk for faxing. I can't think of any other way to do it. So a second
>> parallel SIP trunk for each location sounds like the your way out of
>> this problem.
>
> No, this is not correct. In spite of its name 'canreinvite' being set to
>  'no' does *NOT* disable all reINVITE operations. It *only* controls
> Asterisk generating reINVITEs for the specific purpose of setting up a
> direct media path. If a reINVITE is needed to switch a media stream to
> inactive (when placed on hold) or to T.38, it will still be done,
> regardless of this setting.

Cool, and 'canreinvite' does seem to be an accurate description of
what the variable does then. Thank you for correcting my mistake.