[Asterisk-Users] SIP Caller ID Number vs. Caller ID Name

[Eric Wieling aka ManxPower]

Stefan Gofferje wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I have a rather nasty problem. I have set up an asterisk test system 
> with a Cisco phone, a X-Lite client and so on and did some testing.
> To the developers: great work! Hell of great!
> However, it seems to me like asterisk puts the Caller ID Number into the 
> SIP Display Name and Called ID into the Caller ID Number. That is kinda 
> ugly because one cannot use e.g. the missed-calls-function of the 
> clients because - at least the Cisco phones - can only dial back to the 
> stored Caller ID Number... Which is the Called ID...
> This becomes REALLY ugly if the caller also has a SIP client and has put 
> his real name into Display Name (as supposed by most clients) and his 
> number into the UID/Number field. Then I will find something like
> 
> Stefan Gofferje
> 6000
> 
> in the missed-calls-list of my extension 6000 client...
> 
> Is there any chance to get asterisk to put numbers as they were supposed 
> to be?

I don't know about other people, but I never bother to set the Caller*ID 
info on the phones.  I like to override whatever the phone is sending as 
the information by using callerid= option in zapata.conf, sip.conf, 
iax.conf, etc.  i.e.  callerid=Robert Dobbs <6668>  (notoce the lack of 
quotes, Cisco gets REALLY upset if there are quotes in the CallerID name.)

--Eric