[asterisk-users] sip.conf best practices?

[Paul Hales]

Realtime and sip_buddies in mysql works well for very large
installations.

PaulH

On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 22:11 -0500, Erik Anderson wrote:
> All - I've been wrestling with how to best structure the sip device
> accounts on a new asterisk server I'm deploying.  All of the sip
> devices (currently only Linksys SPA941s) will reside on the same
> subnet as the server, and I have already set up a decent automatic
> provisioning system for the phones.  When the rollout is complete,
> there will be about 100 SIP devices authenticating and routing calls
> through this server.  The question is what to use for the username
> portion of the SIP account.
> 
> Part of me says that I should standardize on using each phone's MAC
> address as the sip account UID, like so:
> 
> ; Joe Smith, x123
> [000E08DA0409]
> secret = blahblah
> ... and so on and so forth
> 
> Doing it that way is nice for standardization's sake, but it makes the
> dialplan quite a bit more complex.
> 
> The obvious alternative is to use the extension as the sip UID:
> 
> ; Joe Smith, x123
> [123]
> secret = blahblah
> ...
> 
> This makes the dialplan *much* more simple, but when looking through
> sip.conf, it's not as immediately obvious what device should be
> authenticating with that account.
> 
> Since this is my first large-ish asterisk deployment, I'm seeking the
> advice of those who have gone before me.  What tactic (one of the
> above options or otherwise) is best to keep your sip.conf sane?
> 
> Thanks!
> -Erik
>