How does it do that? A 'sip show peers' doesn't show an IP address for the peer. Does it store it internally, and not show you when do you a 'sip show peers', or does it pull the IP address from astdb?
> -----Original Message----- > From: C F [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 11:40 AM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Ok... what is 'sip show peers' > really used > for? > > > 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 > _______________________________________________ --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
