[Asterisk-Dev] multiple registrations of same credentials

[Jason Pyeron]

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Olle E. Johansson wrote:

> Jason Pyeron wrote:
>>
>> I am working on some shared line stuff, and I am looking for opinions
>> about registering 2 or more phone with the same credentials and the code
>> changes needed.
>>
>> for now I have been doing extension magic like:
>>
>> exten 400, hint, SIP/400a
>> exten 400, hint, SIP/400b
>> exten 400, hint, SIP/400c
>> exten 400, s, DIAL(SIP/400a&SIP/400b&SIP/400c)
>>
>> but I would really like to
>>
>> exten 400, hint, SIP/400
>> exten 400, s, DIAL(SIP/400)
>>
>> and have every phone ring...
>>
>> now how should we (not?) modify the peer registration to handle this?
>>
>>
> That's a can of worms. We don't want the SIP channel to fork one
> extension to several extensions without the PBX being aware of each.
> That would break the architecture.

treating it kind of like :

exten 400, s, DIAL(SIP/400&SIP/400&SIP/400&...)

so a new channel is created for each and is done through a new pbx thread.
>
> The only possible way is to create new SIP peers on the fly and add them
> to the hint for the extension and use
>
> exten =>400,1,dial(${HINT})
>

At this point, for shared line appearance, the phone needs to get a hint 
for the same name as the extension, or else it does not work properly 
(enough).


> This will be looked at after 1.2 release.
yes, but my client needs it now.



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