[asterisk-dev] bug or feature (use From: instead of Digest username to match INVITE) ?

[Eric "ManxPower" Wieling]

Dinesh Nair wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/10/06 05:48 Luigi Rizzo said the following:
>> This may look as a contrived example, however i just hit that
>> in a configuration where a call from a local phone (username=551) goes
> 
> it's not a contrived example at all. i've hit the same issue when i had 
> the following:
> 
> SIP/1234 --- Asterisk1 <-- SIP --> Asterisk2 --- SIP/1234
> 
> for the same reasons you've outlined, SIP/1234 on Asterisk1 cant call 
> anyone on Asterisk2 and vice versa, since From: would match the sip.conf 
> entry for 1234 in the other Asterisk.
> 
> see 
> http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-dev/2006-August/022402.html 
> for my posting and olle's reply.
> 

Another solution is to use unique SIP account names.  We use the MAC 
address of the device as the SIP account name.