[Asterisk-Dev] SIP peername==username equivalence

[Andrew Lindh]

I think that this is important and should be finished, go for it!

All we need now is to be able to register more than one phone on the
same number and have it work correctly...


>Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 08:00:36 -0800
>From: Matthew Costello <matthew at ottix.com>
>To: asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com
>Subject: [Asterisk-Dev] SIP peername==username equivalence
>
>I've gotten annoyed by the requirement in the sip_chan.c
>file that the username must match the peer name. Since
>the username is generally the same as the extension it leads
>to less than descriptive names in the asterisk configuration
>files.
>
>I've fixed sip_chan.c to break this equivalence. With this
>change the sip.conf peer names are completely internal
>to asterisk. This decoupling allows the use of descriptive
>peer names in the asterisk configuration files.
>
>My "sip show peers" now has
>   Name/username    Host            Dyn  ...
>   streak/44            192.168.1.19     D
>   cream/42            (Unspecified)    D  
>   albacore/41        192.168.1.65     D
>   gs02/34              192.168.1.55     D
>   gs01/33              192.168.1.54     D
>   spa01a/s1-pstn   192.168.1.51     D
>   spa01b/s1-32     192.168.1.51     D
>which is much clearer than just having "44/44".
>
>The patch (against v1-0) is available at
>   http://www.ottix.com/~matthew/sip-username01.patch
>
>I've not put it into the bug tracking system because I have
>not updated the MySQL code in chan_sip.c.  If this fix is
>wanted then I will update and test the MySQL code as well.
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