All - I've been wrestling with how to best structure the sip device accounts on a new asterisk server I'm deploying. All of the sip devices (currently only Linksys SPA941s) will reside on the same subnet as the server, and I have already set up a decent automatic provisioning system for the phones. When the rollout is complete, there will be about 100 SIP devices authenticating and routing calls through this server. The question is what to use for the username portion of the SIP account.
Part of me says that I should standardize on using each phone's MAC address as the sip account UID, like so: ; Joe Smith, x123 [000E08DA0409] secret = blahblah ... and so on and so forth Doing it that way is nice for standardization's sake, but it makes the dialplan quite a bit more complex. The obvious alternative is to use the extension as the sip UID: ; Joe Smith, x123 [123] secret = blahblah ... This makes the dialplan *much* more simple, but when looking through sip.conf, it's not as immediately obvious what device should be authenticating with that account. Since this is my first large-ish asterisk deployment, I'm seeking the advice of those who have gone before me. What tactic (one of the above options or otherwise) is best to keep your sip.conf sane? Thanks! -Erik -- Erik Anderson http://andersonfam.org _______________________________________________ Sign up now for AstriCon 2007! September 25-28th. http://www.astricon.net/ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
