[asterisk-users] Polycom Spectralink 8002 Configuration

[Bob Pierce]

On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 11:37 -0500, M Hulber wrote:
> So I'm thinking, would this work if I had a sip_6666.conf as well as a
> sip_5555.conf?  What the relationship between the LINEs in the 
> sip_xxxx.cfg and the Reg on the phone?  What's the relationship
> between the AUTH and the LINEn_AUTH?  This is just a bit confusing to
> me.
> 
> Basically, I want to treat the phone as a multiple extension phone 
> instead of a single user phone. Where each extension (LINE) represents
> itself as a unique peer when communicating with Asterisk and is 
> registered uniquely.

OK, so the confusing thing that was not documented by Polycom is this:
At the bottom of page 46, the grey box mentions that each handset needs
a config file (which I expected), but it does not clearly state why you
would name them sip_JohnDoe.cfg or sip_3001.cfg - This was a little
counter intuitive for me until I realized it was related to a username
that was entered in the phone's menu.

So if you enter the user on the phone as 5555 it will pick up the
sip_5555.cfg file and if you enter 6666 on the phone it will pick up the
sip_6666.cfg file.

I think you would want to break your config out into two files like
this:
sip_5555.cfg:

AUTH = 5555; secret
LINE1         = 5555
LINE1_PROXY   = 1
LINE1_CALLID  = ABC Tech
LINE1_AUTH    = 5555; secret
LINE2         = 55555
LINE2_PROXY   = 1
LINE2_CALLID  = ABC Tech
LINE2_AUTH    = 5555; secret


sip_6666.cfg:

AUTH = 6666; secret
LINE1         = 6666
LINE1_PROXY   = 1
LINE1_CALLID  = ABC Sales
LINE1_AUTH    = 6666; secret
LINE2         = 6666
LINE2_PROXY   = 1
LINE2_CALLID  = ABC Sales
LINE2_AUTH    = 6666; secret

Or, you could leave it like you have and have the phone register to both
extensions at the same time. I'm not sure what you should do with the
first line in that case.

Bob