[Asterisk-Users] Re: Polycom randomly fails outbound calls,

[Andres Paglayan]

Noah Miller wrote:

> Hi Andres -
> The two that we have are just used as lobby phones.  They're good  
> little phones, but if you have the money, I'd definitely recommend  
> the IP501 instead.  The screen is MUCH better, and having full  
> speakerphone is great!  Plus the 500/501 just feels a little more solid.

Yeah, I think it was a wrong move going for the 301 instead,

>
>
> Hmm.  I'm not sure either.  I've never used AMP before (except for a  
> quick glance at asterisk at home).  If you can change the sip settings,  
> I don't think it should matter.

I am not using A at H, it didn't work well for me, I just using AMP over 
asterisk, and yes, sip are 100% tweakable,
how do you configure your system, all by hand?

>
> Well, the two weird things I see here are the type setting and the  
> host.  Type is set to peer, but there doesn't seem to be a  
> corresponding user definition (AFAIK, all peers have to have users).   
> You might try changing it to "type=friend" instead (like 201).

I did it, it was set to peer just because I red somewhere that Polys 
didn't like friend type,

>
> For the host setting, this is the address of the sip device, and not  
> the asterisk server.  If you have the Polycom set to a static address  
> of 192.168.1.18, all is well.  If your Polycom is set to DHCP (this  
> is the default), you should use "host=dynamic"

it's fixed to 18

>
> A couple of things that I know you don't need:
> nat=never
> qualify=no

I took them off too, I got them from the only "how to" I found about amp 
and the polycom,

>
>
> - Noah
>
>
Thanks ,
I hope I can help you same day,

Andres