[asterisk-users] SLA Appearance between 2 Cisco 7960's (SIP)

[Jason Howk]

After reading my response I didn't make it all that obvious that I was 
also saying that the Cisco's don't support hints.  Chalk it up to a long 
day.

--J.

Aaron Daniel wrote:
> Speaking as someone who did an installation with quite a few Cisco 
> phones running sip, they do not support hinting at all with the sip 
> firmware.  The latest version of the Cisco phones (79x1) are primarily 
> sip phones, however with the CCM specific extensions, they tend to be 
> fairly difficult to get to work with asterisk.  I wouldn't recommend 
> banging your head on the wall trying, took a while for the bump on my 
> head to go away.  :)
> 
> Anyone trying to get this to work would be better off getting a phone 
> that does support hinting, and has plenty of documentation on how to do 
> it (Polycom, Aastra, SNOM, etc).
> 
> Jason Howk wrote:
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>> I run the phone with sip firmware so I can confirm it does. ;)  
>> Actually the "G" means global and replaces the actual text on the 
>> buttons with icons instead.  The gigabit interfaces come on the later 
>> - -GE models.  My question was more directed to if anyone has gotten 
>> SIP hints to work on the older 7960s at all.  Looks like I might just 
>> have to give the new snom 370 a try...
>>
>> - --J.
>>
>> On Apr 25, 2007, at 7:59 PM, Brad Sumrall wrote:
>>
>>> I am very confident the 7960G has a sip load. I know for sure the 
>>> regular
>>> 7960 does and the G just means gigabit interface. The 7970 was the 
>>> only one
>>> that didn't because of all the color interface/touch screen, and 
>>> Cisco was
>>> still pushing call manager big time, so skinny was the only load 
>>> available.
>>> If you log into cisco.com, they have it under software.
>>>
>>> Sometimes people post it on the internet.
>>>
>>> Asterisk is supposed to be more skinny friendly these days.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
>>> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Jason Howk
>>> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 7:32 PM
>>> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>>> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] SLA Appearance between 2 Cisco 7960's 
>>> (SIP)
>>>
>>>> From reading the SLA docs, SIP hints are use to get the lights on the
>>> phone to show the "correct state".  I was under the impression that the
>>> SIP firmware on the 7960's didn't support the SIP hints properly (or at
>>> all), which means that SLA won't work properly on a 7960.
>>>
>>> If anyone has gotten this to work, I'd like to hear about it.
>>>
>>> --Jason.
>>>
>>> John C. Wolosuk Jr. wrote:
>>>> Has anyone had any success with getting SLA going between 2 SIP phones?
>>>> (Particularly a set of Cisco 79xx's) The SLA document that comes with
>>>> the asterisk source is about as clear as mud.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone have a working sip.conf, sla.conf, and extensions.conf that
>>>> I can use for reference?
>>>>
>>>> The part I'm most confused about is how to build the lines in sip.conf
>>>> and how the phones should behave. It seems apparent that the phones
>>>> should not register with asterisk, otherwise all the phones will try to
>>>> register to be THE phone for a given extension. should these lines be
>>>> built like a trunk/peer? if I could be an example of how lines for SLA
>>>> should look in sip.conf, that would be helpful.
>>>>
>>>> Also I'm somewhat annoyed that I have to compile zaptel drivers that I
>>>> don't use in order to compile the app_meetme.so module so I can have 
>>>> the
>>>> SLA functions available to the dialplan...
>>>>
>>>> Any feedback is greatly appreciated!
>>>>
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