[asterisk-dev] SIP Multiple endpoints with same id

[Eric "ManxPower" Wieling]

John Lange wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 11:13 -0600, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
>> 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'.
> 
> Just for the record I would definitely love to see the registration of
> multiple endpoints using the same credentials.
> 
> It would make life so much easier for managing accounts instead of
> having to create a new entry in sip.conf every time.
> 
> There are many scenarios where it would be nice but here is two simple
> examples we run into all the time:
> 
> Customer returns a VoIP device for whatever reason and is given a new
> one. We want to recycle the old device but we are now have to plug it
> into a segmented network otherwise the device comes up and registers
> with Asterisk disrupting the customers phone service.
> 
> Also clients frequently want to configure softphones; one at home, one
> at work, one on their laptop, etc. etc. Its a persistent hassle having
> to respond to all these requests modifying both the sip.conf and the
> dialplan every time. If Asterisk supported multiple registrations
> nothing would have to be done to accommodate this.
> 
> One note though; in sip.conf there does need to be a config option for
> maximum registrations to prevent clients from hooking up 100 devices or
> something.

Allowing multiple registrations for 1 sip.conf account might be very 
complicated.

Maybe just allowing wildcard SIP accounts would be better.  i.e.

[0001547af43b-*]

This would allow any device registering with any userid beginning with 
"0001547af43b-".  This might be fairly easy to do.