[asterisk-users] Getting multiple phones to ring ...

[Bob Smither]

On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 11:49 -0600, Bob Smither wrote:
> This has to be easy, but I have spent a fair amount of time looking for
> a solution to no avail.  I am trying to get multiple phones to ring when
> a call comes into an Asterisk box from a particular phone number.  What
> happens is that only one of the phones rings.
> 
> I have several GrandStream BT200 SIP phones connected via an internal
> LAN to Asterisk 1.6.0.17 on CentOS.  Here is a snippet from sip.conf:
> 
> [bt112]
> type=friend    
> host=129.168.0.112
> context=bt200
> 
> [bt116]
> type=friend
> host=192.168.0.116
> context=bt200

<snip>

I got this to work by assigning a secret to each phone in sip.conf (and
in each phone).

Not sure why that worked.  Before (with no assigned secret) one phone
would ring and the other would not.  I could never discern a pattern.
Since assigning secrets to each phone, both phones now appear to
consistently ring as expected.