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[nik.middleton at noble...]

Hi Guys,

Now that IAX has been published as an RFC (http://www.rfc-editor.org/authors/rfc5456.txt) are there any plans to support registrations?

Not a moan, just curious as to the road map.

A lot of my users have Asterisk PBX’s using IAX and I’d love to replace my Asterisk central server with FS to better serve them. Yes I know I could get them to move to using SIP, but there’s a lot of them.

Regards

[anthony.minessale at g...]

Hi,

This issue is that our mod_iax is using the only freely available iax2 stack. A client library that was only designed for small softphones.
There is a patch in jira to add registration support but it was not done correctly and we have not had much time to work on it.
We've already had to add several unappealing hacks to the code we are using now to make it threadsafe and i don't think it will scale very far and you may find it a disappointment even with registration support.

I had suggested at some point that we would consider making an entire new scalable implementation of iax2 designed as a client/server library but really it's probably the place of the authors of the protocol to provide such a resource.  But if they do no wish to, I estimated the cost of developing such a stack to be in the range of 25k-35k.

So the short answer is we have little to no demand for it, so we have not put much effort into supporting it.


On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 7:11 AM, Nik Middleton <nik.middleton@noblesolutions.co.uk (nik.middleton@noblesolutions.co.uk)> wrote: