[asterisk-dev] SIP Multiple endpoints with same id

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> The not-so-easy part (to me at least) is how to make this dynamic
> - e.g. buy a new _device_, configure with appropriate credentials,
> and have it dynamically (i.e. as it registers/unregisters)
> linked to a certain extension together with
> the other devices in the group without having to modify the dialplan.

I have never understood this at all... if you need to modify the SIP
configuration to provide an entity with credentials for this device,
what is so hard about also modifying the dialplan?

Also, in many _real_ installations, people use multiple SIP entity
definitions for the same endpoint (like my Polycom 601 has three of them
for different purposes) and the dialplan has to know how to handle these
different entities properly anyway.

If this is really something that people want, it sounds to me a like a
small script could probably suffice... there's not much need for this to
actually live inside Asterisk, especially since that starts to move into
the territory of 'policy' rather than 'mechanism'.