[Asterisk-Users] IP Phone with multiple accounts on same instance of asterisk

[John Fraizer]

Patrick Lidstone (Personal e-mail) wrote:

> Please excuse me if this is a niaive question...
> 
> I have Cisco 7940 (but same applies to Snom's too), and it would be
> convenient to have multiple extensions on the same phone registered
> against the same asterisk instance. (E.g. one extension which is
> associated with work, one extension which is associated with personal
> calls etc). However, when I do this, Asterisk/the phone seems to get
> hopelessly confused - incoming calls do not get routed to the correct
> extension. I think this might be related to the fact that I have a
> single IP address associated with multiple extensions in my SIP.conf.
> 
> Is this is known limitation of asterisk? Or am I simply implementing my
> dialplan/routing incorrectly? Suggestions for a workaround which allow
> the separation of work and home contexts gratefully received...
> 
> Patrick


Patrick,

I have 6 different extensions, all from the same * server, on my 7960 
and it works just fine.  You most likely have a misconfiguration 
somewhere that is causing the calls to be routed to the wrong line on 
your phone.

John