[Asterisk-biz] gotta be a better way

[Are]

This is a very interesting topic and very relevant for advanced
configuration of Asterisk. Yes we all know it is the wrong list! :-)

In all earlier versions of Asterisk including Beta 1.2 we got the following:

agi_channel: IAX2/70104 at 83.229.221.208:4569-3

in the brand new Asterisk 1.2 we got the following:

agi_channel: IAX2/83.229.221.208:4569-2

We used to identify the device or username using channel. But on IAX from
1.2 that is not working at all. I posted this on the user list and Kevin P.
Fleming replied.

It was changed without specific notice, because you could not rely on
the IAX2 user name always being present in the channel name anyway. The
other channel drivers also do not put the user name into the channel
name, so now it's consistent.



The Solution:

We use accountcode

For each device/username we add the username as accountcode.

In extension.conf we can now retrieve the value using ${ACCOUNTCODE}

This is very simple and very reliable and has removed the need to parse the
channel variable. This is even more important now when Kevin P. Fleming has
confirmed that we can't rely on the channel information.

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