[asterisk-users] AST-2009-006: IAX2 Call Number Resource Exhaustion

[Matt Riddell]

On 5/09/09 10:03 AM, Gordon Henderson wrote:
> I've been hanging out with IAX, thinking it's the "right thing", but more
> and more I'm thinking of moving to SIP, and I think this will be the straw
> that tips the balance as it were. I've a few 100 boxes out there which
> would all eventually need upgrading, and for some, it's just not going to
> be possible to upgrade the underlying asterisk, so it's going to be just
> as easy to move to SIP which is what I'm going to do.
>
> I don't yet know what I'm going to do with the handfull of clients who use
> IAX and Zoiper though. Persuade them to move to SIP, I guess - at least
> Zoiper supports SIP now, but that's also a hassle as I've quite a few
> clients who use a SIP phone on their desk, then Zoiper and IAX on their
> laptop with identical credentials when on the road/home. (I arrange the
> PBX to Dial(SIP/123&IAX2/123)
>
> And what about all those desk phones that support IAX? I almost bought a
> pallet-load of them at one point - really glad I didn't now!

To be fair, you should probably use something like Fail2Ban with either 
type of connection - SIP or IAX2.

-- 
Cheers,

Matt Riddell
Director
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