[asterisk-dev] users and peers (and phones and trunks) ?

[Johansson Olle E]

We just had that debate a while ago on asterisk-users. Google and you  
will
find the recap.

Basically: From chan_sips perspective: There's no reason at all
and it's going away. As you are aware of, I have code in a branch
that removes the user, which now is integrated into codename
pineapple.

We decided not to change chan_sip, but to do the significant
architecture change in a new version in parallell.

/Olle


26 okt 2006 kl. 15.29 skrev Luigi Rizzo:

> This is related to chan_sip, but maybe it applies to other parts
> of asterisk as well.
>
> I have a doubt on why we have "users" and "peers" - in other words,
> is there some limitation that we want to enforce, or some feature
> that we want to enable, by by declaring a device in one or the other
> category ?  Is there anything we would miss if we just defined
> everything as a "peer" (in chan_sip terminology) and drop the "user"
> category altogether ?  That would make the code a lot simpler, with
> a big impact on the configuration simplicity as well.
>
> E.g. when i have an ATA, a hardphone, softphone, another asterisk
> or a provider, i always end up declaring them as "peer" (or "friend",
> but i really don't know why!), and the only think i make sure of
> is to establish the connections by either declaring the other
> device's IP/port, or expecting it to register to me.
>
> Is there something else i am missing that motivates the existence
> of two different categories ?
>
> (note: i mention phones and trunks because i am unclear on what these
> terms mean too. Sometime i think of a phone as a leaf device,
> but that's probably a useless definition, because people always
> find a way to interface a leaf device to some other piece of
> equipment and then play tricks to tunnel data over whatever
> existing channel exists...)
>
> 	cheers
> 	luigi
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