So it’s finally time to release my IAX softphone for Macintosh. It’s still very much in beta, but I need feedback on how everything works. There’s a lot of stuff that I’m adding that didn’t make it into this release. Have a look here.
First beta of JackenIAX released
February 18th, 2006 · 7 Comments
Tags: Asterisk PBX · Cocoa Objective-C · Programming · Technical stuff
7 responses so far ↓
1 Bauke // Feb 19, 2006 at 01:21
congratz with the site going live !! i haven’t been able to test anything today, i just had to start working on a performance i have next month in canada. but rest assured that i will give some solid feedback soon.
cheers, bauke
2 Jacken // Feb 19, 2006 at 01:27
Sounds great! And good luck with the gig, or do one say brake a leg?
Rock on!
Jacken
3 voip lurker // Feb 19, 2006 at 04:58
My first attempt didn’t work - I’m a VOIP newbie, so I may very well not have JackenIAX correctly configured. To that end, I would request some kind of console window to help with debug connections.
BTW, I ran accross the following posting from voipbuster which indicates that they are planning to end-of-life IAX support (info is at the bottom):
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Hello!
We see you are still making calls to our old SIP server. Therefore you receive this message
Soon we will shut down our old asterisk servers. The exact shutdown date has not been decided yet but will be some time soon. We are sending this email now so you have plenty of time to move to our new SIP system. When a shutdown-date has been decided then we will announce the date again.
How to move:
Connect your SIP device or softphone to our new SIP server with the same username & password as you are using now
the old sip server you are connecting to now: sip.voipbuster.com the new sip server you have to change to: sip1.voipbuster.com
On the new SIPserver there is no GSM codec support for now, but this WILL be supported before we shutdown the old servers, in the meantime use G711alaw (no ulaw!) or G726
the advantage of the new SIP server:
For IAX users:
We know some of you asterisk-users will not be happy with it but IAX will reach end-of-life soon too. So if you use asterisk and use IAX to make calls, migrate to SIP!
Regards, VoipBuster
4 Piet // Feb 20, 2006 at 17:11
Hey there! Awesome piece of software! And really nice website
I was just wonderind if JackenIAX does NAT traversal automatically? I’m having a hard time connecting to FWD at the moment, but I’m behind a real pain for a NAT network, and I don’t have control over it! 
Cheers, Piet
5 Jacken // Feb 20, 2006 at 17:23
Hi!
Thanks for those kind words!
Well, let’s face it, FWD isn’t the most reliable network on the planet. I have tried to connect to them during the day, and the server has been down for most of that time. This is not unusual unfortuanly. I’ll try to find another free voip provider for testing.
IAX uses only one port. So if your ISP doesn’t explicitly block that port, it should work.
6 Jonas // Feb 20, 2006 at 19:36
The FWD FAQ says their IAX gateway is still a test project and that there may be some minor interruptions.
That said, your software is a really good looking one. You make me wish I had a Mac handy
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