<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On 3 Jan 2006, at 19:10, Francisco Pérez Botella wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hi.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I will have to manage From asterisk to clients IP-phones, so biefly the idea<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">is to multiplex voip flows in large packets and multicast them from<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">asterisk/AP to client stations. flows from client stations to asterisk<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">gateway go unicast. I wonder how iax2 protocol will be good for multiplex<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">(trunk) and multicast ??</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Hmm, it won't be easy.<DIV>The IAX protocol is not multicast aware, so it is expecting a single ack to each </DIV><DIV>full frame. You will have to do quite a bit of work on the IAX implementation</DIV><DIV>for it to do the right thing in that area.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I'm also not sure I see the advantage of multicast, given that normally </DIV><DIV>phone calls are 1 to 1 connections, (except conferences I suppose).</DIV><DIV>Is it a packet size problem ?</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><A href="http://www.westhawk.co.uk">http://www.westhawk.co.uk</A>/</FONT></P> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>