[Asterisk-Users] Sip registration Timers

[Mark Spencer]

> But if I close my sip phone and a call goes through it will still wait
> the 25 seconds before it goes to voice mail even though my Sip phone is
> not even on. If I restart Asterisk and do not register my sip phone it
> will go straight to voice mail after no one picks up on Zap/2. Is there
> a way to force asterisk to keep checking on this phone say every few
> seconds (5)? Callers are getting confused as to why the long dead air
> and usually hang up and call back in.

You can add a "qualify=1000" to your SIP phone and that will cause
Asterisk to consider your SIP phone to be "unavailble" should it take over
1000ms to respond (1 second).

Mark