Re: [Serusers] SER / MediaProxy / B2BUA

All Asterisk B2BUA does, really (I'm referring to the script, not the Asterisk patch itself), is authenticate a call coming in, and then lookup in radius what the session timeout for that call should be. It then creates an Asterisk dial string and sets the call timeout to be X number of seconds based on the session-timer attribute in radius. If media proxy allows you to set session timers on the fly or has some sort of polling system (I don't know, I've never used it), allowing you to terminate a call after a certain period of time, then no, you wouldn't need Asterisk B2BUA. We actually ended up only partly using Asterisk B2BUA for our stuff, because it didn't quite do everything we wanted (it's really only a B2BUA and it relies rather heavily on some odd conventions in radius for authentication without a password (not really authentication)), so we coded our own setup which keeps track of session timeouts and call costs and the like and then uses the Asterisk B2BUA framework to create the Asterisk dial string. At this point, there's no real reason we couldn't replace the whole thing with our own code (it became 95% ours in the process, but the process would have gone NOwhere without the original code to set us in the right direction). If you're in a similar situation with mediaproxy, and it allows session timers of some sort, there's no real reason to NOT use your own setup. N. On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 16:51:12 -0400, Daniel Salama wrote