[Asterisk-Dev] SIP Phone reset from CLI

[John Todd]

>On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 04:48:12PM -0400, James Golovich wrote:
>>  I don't know if this should really be in cvs, unless its a feature that is
>>  supported by all phones and not just the cisco phones.
>
>	I tend to agree.
>
>	But I'd like to see asterisk be able to pass the notify
>messages itself, so if I send a notify message to
>the asterisk server, i'd like it to forward them to the phones.
>
>	i have a perl script that you can use that takes
><exten> <ip> as arguments.
>
>	if you use an asterisk server as the <ip> it
>does not work..
>
>	seems like forwarding these would be the best way to do this.
>
>	- jared
>--
>Jared Mauch  | pgp key available via finger from jared at puck.nether.net
>clue++;      | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/  My statements are only mine.


This suggestion, and several others that require "proxy" 
functionality in Asterisk, have been made in the last few weeks.  I 
have said in the past that Asterisk doesn't make a good proxy, since 
it isn't really a proxy at all.  At the moment, I'll suggest again 
that is the case. (SER and Vocal are perfectly suitable, 
mostly-RFC-compliant proxies.)

While not being related to the exact circumstance at hand in this 
thread, this general concept of expanded SIP feature requests can be 
see in this request: 
http://bugs.digium.com/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0000157

Don't get me wrong; I'd like to see some selectable "proxy" features, 
but I also would like to see that ability locked down very tightly on 
a global and/or per peer basis.  I don't want your script able to 
send SIP messages into my network if you happen to know the NAT'ed IP 
address of my phone, and the IP address of my Asterisk server.  :-)

JT