Re: [Iaxclient-devel] How to implement a IAX server

[Peter G. <jpg...@gm...>]

Hi Daniele,

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 2:49 AM, Daniele Barzotti
<dan...@eu...> wrote:
> Peter Grayson ha scritto:
>>
>> There is an IETF draft RFC for the IAX2 protocol:
>>
>>   http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-guy-iax-04.txt
>>
>> Note that when we talk about "IAX" protocol we almost always mean
>> "IAX2" protocol. The original IAX protocol was short lived and I do
>> not believe there to be any implementations in the wild.
>
> Yes, I've found and started to read it..
> But before I searching around if there is some code that I can use
> without reinvent the wheel!

The code in asterisk (chan_iax2.c) and the libiax2 library that is
part of the iaxclient source tree are both reference implementations
of the protocol and both are open source.

>> Asterisk is the de facto IAX2 server.
>>  ...
>> I think most iaxclient users are probably using asterisk on the server
>> side. Asterisk has a module called "chan_iax2" that implements the
>> IAX2 protocol.
>
> I know, but I would make my server able to talk with asterisk (and
> becoming an asterisk client) and working stand alone like a server for
> my clients.
> So I can take suggestions (and code) from that.

Asterisk can talk with asterisk and be an asterisk client; as can
iaxclient. Perhaps I'm not understanding  your question though.

Pete