2008/11/20 Daniel Hazelbaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > It will auto-complete if you hit tab, just like the shell. But I > would recommend against it. I can't really think of a good reason to > do it. 'sip show peer 268' I can remember to see that status of > extension 268 when somebody calls and says "I can't dial 268". > Whereas 'sip show peer 00147...wtf was his MAC address again?', I have > to lookup the extension somewhere and find the MAC address.
I mostly agree with that and that's what kept me from doing it earlier. > > > Any reason you want to use the MAC address? If it is just for easy > provisioning, I just put a MAC address field in the realtime SIP table > and use a php script to take the phone's MAC address and feed it the > login information it needs. provisioning is the first reason. I also thought it could help to separate devices, users and other resources. as you obviously cannot tie MAC address to a dialing string, this forces you to query a database somewhere for every call ... I'm not fully convinced of this, anyway, but when I thought about it, I felt frightened about loosing things I'm used to ... > > > Daniel > > > Hi, > > > > For a long time, I was wondering if I should use MAC address instead > > of Extension number to identify SIP endpoints (as I'm mostly not > > using softphones). > > > > Before diving into this, I wondered how people using MAC address are > > using CLI as it seems more natural and simple to type > > "sip show peer 4566" as opposed to "sip show peer 00147F784512". > > Is there something obvious I'm missing (auto-completion ? > > aliasing ? ...) ? > > > > Cheers > > _______________________________________________ > > -- 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > -- 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 >
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