On Thursday 05 February 2004 05:50, Jeremy McNamara wrote:
A type=friend is simply both a type=user and type=peer using the same set of config directives. While a type=friend makes things almost trivial to get calls working in both directions, it will limit the flexibility of your config and even hinder some of the more advanced uses of Asterisk.
For example: Say you want to use the same 'user' across many different Asterisk boxes, which of course will have different IP addresses. In this situation, you cannot have a host keyword in your Asterisk config stanza for the type=user, but the type=peer requires some host keyword. Thus, if you use a type=friend you will limit the use of that one username to whatever IP address is contained in the host keyword.
You only need to register to Asterisk if you have a dynamic IP address or you need to blow thru a firewall/NAT device. To register you need to have a type=peer with a host=dynamic. Since in your type=friend config directive you had host=some.ip.address, while this may be this is fine to for the type=user, this same value also gets used for the type=peer, which makes it so you cannot register since the IP address is hard coded.
So, either you do not need to register and things will Just Work(tm)
or you will need to use separate type=user and type=peer config
directives.
So, why can't you just do:
[someuser] type=friend host=dynamic context=internal secret=somesecret
In other words, you can have your user registered to the server AND be
using a type=friend definition. This is exactly how I have some test
equipment set up and it works perfectly well.
Sure, but then you are not restricting to any specific IP address to authenticate users and you will request the internal context on the far end when sending them calls.
Jeremy McNamara
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