Re: Using MAC or extension number as SIP identifier

[Olivier <oza-4h07@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

2008/11/20 Philipp Kempgen <philipp.kempgen@xxxxxxxxx>

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).

I would incline to say entries in sip.conf mostly relates to devices (hence passwords which are automatically sent when devices register) and I agree that SIP accounts are about users ...

  Philipp Kempgen

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