Eric "ManxPower" Wieling schrieb: > Philipp Kempgen wrote: >> Olivier schrieb: >> >>> 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 ? ...) ? >> >> SIP accounts are about users (not extensions or devices). > > No, SIP "accounts" are about devices. There is nothing in sip.conf > (except maybe the callerid= settings) that tie the information to a > specific user.
I would rather put it like this: There is nothing in sip.conf that should tie the information to a specific device. :-) > In fact the same user can use multiple devices, all > listed in sip.conf. True. Or: A human user can use multiple SIP accounts (be they on different devices or just on one). Just as he/she can use multiple email/Jabber/... accounts. That's why email addresses like [EMAIL PROTECTED] are so uncommon. Remember that a user agent is primarily meant to act on behalf of a user. That might be nit-picking for many installations but it's important when you want mobility / hot-desking. But in the end the peer entries are just names and thus seem to be a matter of taste. I won't argue about it. Philipp Kempgen -- http://www.das-asterisk-buch.de - http://www.the-asterisk-book.com Amooma GmbH - Bachstr. 126 - 56566 Neuwied -> http://www.amooma.de Geschäftsführer: Stefan Wintermeyer, Handelsregister: Neuwied B14998 -- _______________________________________________ -- 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
