No Audio Both Ways With Ipv6

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Hi,

when asterisk registers with the VOIP provider via ipv6 and when local phones don’t work with ipv6 but only with ipv4, am I to expect issues?

I’m receiving incoming calls via the provider, asterisk correctly dials the phone where the calls are suposed to go to, the phone rings — and when I pick it up, there is no audio in either direction.

There are no packets showing up in the logs as being rejected by the firewall. I can make outgoing calls just fine, and those are with the VOIP provider on one side and the same ipv4 phone on the other.

How can it be that incoming calls have no audio?

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2 thoughts on - No Audio Both Ways With Ipv6

  • Do a SIP packet capture and see what the SDP in the INVITE is telling each end to expect from the other.

    Sounds like the setup is trying to do direct media – which obviously cannot work between an IPv4-only phone and an IPv6-only provider.

    Make sure Asterisk remains in the audio path and it should “almost transcode”
    for you.

    I have audio working over just such an arrangement (in my case, an IPv4-only provider, and phones connected via IPv6) without problems.

    Antony.

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  • Hmm I could try that maybe, as a last resort.

    I thought about that, and I think direct media isn’t being used. It works with ipv4, and if it was using direct media, ipv4 wouldn’t work, either. IIRC I
    tried with ‘aor (or endpoint?)/direct_media = no’. Unfortunately, I can’t really make test calls to try things out.

    When a call comes in and I pick up the phone, asterisk says it has learned the ipv6
    address of the VOIP provider on one side and the ipv4 address on the other, and the channels are joining a simple bridge — whatever that means. Is there something that would tell me if asterisk is trying to set up direct media or remains in between?

    I wish I could try with an ipv6 phone, but I couldn’t get my Polycom VVX 1500D to work with ipv6 at all. It was suggested on the Polycom forum that the firmware is too old and that I update to the latest, but the latest doesn’t run on this phone because the phone is too old. The release before the latest is supposed to work, but that is nowhere to be found, and I didn’t get any more answers.

    I tried Twinkle on my computer, but that doesn’t support ipv6 at all. There must be something special going on with ipv6 when it comes to SIP and/or RTP.

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