On Nov 20, 2008, at 9:02 AM, Olivier wrote:
2008/11/20 Daniel Hazelbaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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.
What I currently do to separate "devices" (fax machines, modems, etc.)
is give them actual names. I.e. I have "northFax" and "southFax"
defined (so I would type 'sip show peer northFax'). In my mind, and
particularly in my use, anything that a person dial's as an extension
is going to have a person on the other end. Other things can have
names because end users won't be dialing them as extensions. The fax
machines are "tied" to a dedicated phone number so Asterisk dial's it
internally.
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 ...
Correct. We setup a macro that uses a MySQL database to handle our
extension dialing, we don't dial by MAC address but if you were so
inclined, I suppose you could. As far as speed goes, we query the
database about 4-6 times for every call. 85 users, 9 telco lines,
Dell 2950 server, and we peak at about 0.2% cpu usage. Again for
simplicity, having all the "front-scene" stuff match what the end-user
is talking about is very nice. There is no reason you couldn't do
some naming convention like 'user<Extension#>', 'device<Extension#>',
'other<Extension#>'. That might help in your separation and wouldn't
be too hard to figure out.
Daniel
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