I use it to order pizza. Just kidding, but among others it tells you what IP address Asterisk knows for a peer, as well as the qualify status.
On 3/23/06, Douglas Garstang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd love to understand what the function of the peer list returned by 'sip > show peers' is for, especially when Realtime is used. > > If I start Asterisk with realtime enabled, a 'sip show peers' yields none. As > each peer (phone) registers, or a call is made to the peer, Asterisk adds > them to the list returned by 'sip show peers'. Correct? > > Apparently Asterisk doesn't refer to thie list however, when deciding where a > peer is located. It uses astdb instead (I have rtcachefriends=yes). I cleared > the fullcontact field in the database, and placed a call. The only place that > Asterisk could get the peer's IP address from was astdb, as the peer wasn't > in 'sip show peers' as I purposefully cleared the fullcontact field for all > peers in the database. > > So... what's the point of this? Is it used for anything? It looks like it > uses it for voicemail, but that's it. Ie if the peer isn't in 'sip show > peers' then voicemail does not get delivered, EVEN if it's in astdb. > > Also, if all my phones are defined as friends, why does a 'sip show friends' > return a smaller list than 'sip show peers'??? If the phones are all defined > as friends, which are both peer and user, then a 'sip show friends' should > return all the phones, but it does not. > > No wonder I'm confused. > > :( > > Doug. > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
