<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/11/20 Daniel Hazelbaker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:daniel@highdesertchurch.com">daniel@highdesertchurch.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
It will auto-complete if you hit tab, just like the shell. But I<br>
would recommend against it. I can't really think of a good reason to<br>
do it. 'sip show peer 268' I can remember to see that status of<br>
extension 268 when somebody calls and says "I can't dial 268".<br>
Whereas 'sip show peer 00147...wtf was his MAC address again?', I have<br>
to lookup the extension somewhere and find the MAC address.</blockquote><div><br>I mostly agree with that and that's what kept me from doing it earlier.<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Any reason you want to use the MAC address? If it is just for easy<br>
provisioning, I just put a MAC address field in the realtime SIP table<br>
and use a php script to take the phone's MAC address and feed it the<br>
login information it needs.</blockquote><div> </div><div>provisioning is the first reason.<br>I also thought it could help to separate devices, users and other resources.<br><br>as you obviously cannot tie MAC address to a dialing string, this forces you to query a database somewhere for every call ...<br>
<br>I'm not fully convinced of this, anyway, but when I thought about it, I felt frightened about loosing things I'm used to ...<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Daniel<br>
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> For a long time, I was wondering if I should use MAC address instead<br>
> of Extension number to identify SIP endpoints (as I'm mostly not<br>
> using softphones).<br>
><br>
> Before diving into this, I wondered how people using MAC address are<br>
> using CLI as it seems more natural and simple to type<br>
> "sip show peer 4566" as opposed to "sip show peer 00147F784512".<br>
> Is there something obvious I'm missing (auto-completion ?<br>
> aliasing ? ...) ?<br>
><br>
> Cheers<br>
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