[Asterisk-Users] Re: connect more the one phone to ONE sip Acoount

[Eric "ManxPower" Wieling]

Olle E Johansson wrote:
> Mikael Magnusson wrote:
>> Olle E Johansson wrote / skrev:
>>
>>> Andreas Koch wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>> how is it possible to connect (register)  more the one Phone to One 
>>>> Sip-Acoount.
>>>>
>>>> With, for example sipgate.de this is not a special feature, it is 
>>>> common.
>>>> We have users, what like to have more then one Phone, -> Homeoffice 
>>>> and Desk
>>>>
>>>> Rigth now if a other phone registers whith the data, the first ist 
>>>> removed.
>>>>
>>> You have to consider that Asterisk is a multiprotocol PBX and that 
>>> the PBX need to be in control of each device connected to the PBX. 
>>> With multiple registrations for one account we would break the 
>>> Asterisk architecture unless we did some very clever stuff. This has 
>>> been discussed quite a lot of times, so please search the mailing 
>>> list for more information.
>>
>>
>> I understand that allowing multiple registrations would break 
>> chan_sip, but how can it break the Asterisk architecture if the 
>> forking is done by the Dial application? Would it really matter if the 
>> dial string contains multiple SIP AOR:s/users, which is possible 
>> today, or multiple bindings for one SIP AOR?
>>
>> Example of Dial with multiple SIP AOR:s/users, working today:
>> Dial(SIP/user1&SIP/user2)
>>
>> Example of Dial with multiple bindings for one SIP AOR, expanded by FOO:
>> Dial(${FOO(user1)}) => Dial(SIP/user1/10.1.1.1&SIP/user1/10.2.2.2)
>>
> That's exactly the solution I've proposed many, many times in the 
> asterisk-dev mailing list :-)

What we do is make the SIP userid for the device be it's MAC address.