[Asterisk-Users] Ok... what is 'sip show peers' really used for?

[Aaron Daniel]

scm1*CLI> sip show peers
Name/username              Host            Dyn Nat ACL Port     Status
43993/43993                158.135.16.65    D   N      5060     OK (10 ms)
63974/63974                70.191.165.231   D   N      5060 
Unmonitored
41042/41042                (Unspecified)    D   N      0        UNKNOWN
44218w/44218w              (Unspecified)    D   N      0        UNKNOWN
44953w/44953w              10.2.176.29      D   N      5060     OK (82 ms)
44198/44198                10.2.0.31        D          5060     OK (124 
ms)
44198w/44198w              70.179.174.151   D   N      5060     OK (1111 
ms)
61850/61850                70.179.171.85    D   N      5060 
Unmonitored
41850/41850                70.179.171.85    D   N      5060 
Unmonitored

I see quite a few IP addresses in mine...

On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Douglas Garstang wrote:

> How does it do that? A 'sip show peers' doesn't show an IP address for the peer. Does it store it internally, and not show you when do you a 'sip show peers', or does it pull the IP address from astdb?
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: C F [mailto:shmaltz at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 11:40 AM
>> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Ok... what is 'sip show peers'
>> really used
>> for?
>>
>>
>> I use it to order pizza. Just kidding, but among others it tells you
>> what IP address Asterisk knows for a peer, as well as the qualify
>> status.
>>
>> On 3/23/06, Douglas Garstang <dgarstang at oneeighty.com> wrote:
>>> I'd love to understand what the function of the peer list
>> returned by 'sip show peers' is for, especially when Realtime is used.
>>>
>>> If I start Asterisk with realtime enabled, a 'sip show
>> peers' yields none. As each peer (phone) registers, or a call
>> is made to the peer, Asterisk adds them to the list returned
>> by 'sip show peers'. Correct?
>>>
>>> Apparently Asterisk doesn't refer to thie list however,
>> when deciding where a peer is located. It uses astdb instead
>> (I have rtcachefriends=yes). I cleared the fullcontact field
>> in the database, and placed a call. The only place that
>> Asterisk could get the peer's IP address from was astdb, as
>> the peer wasn't in 'sip show peers' as I purposefully cleared
>> the fullcontact field for all peers in the database.
>>>
>>> So... what's the point of this? Is it used for anything? It
>> looks like it uses it for voicemail, but that's it. Ie if the
>> peer isn't in 'sip show peers' then voicemail does not get
>> delivered, EVEN if it's in astdb.
>>>
>>> Also, if all my phones are defined as friends, why does a
>> 'sip show friends' return a smaller list than 'sip show
>> peers'??? If the phones are all defined as friends, which are
>> both peer and user, then a 'sip show friends' should return
>> all the phones, but it does not.
>>>
>>> No wonder I'm confused.
>>>
>>> :(
>>>
>>> Doug.
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Aaron Daniel
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