[Asterisk-Users] defaultip= in sip.conf doesnt work?

[John Todd]

Sounds like a bug, then.

JT


>  > In my experiences with Cisco 79xx phones, if you have
>>  "proxy_register: 1" set, then the phone will require a successful
>>  REGISTER transaction before it will give you dialtone.  Try setting
>>  that option to "0" and see what you get and if it works with
>>  "defaultip=" below.
>
>The phone is running the firmware version 5.1 and always gives a
>dialtone regardless of proxy_register. The problem is that if
>proxy_register is 0, the phone always shows the unregistered icon next
>to the line names. I would like the phone to register, but I would also
>like an incoming call (from * to the phone) to work before the phone
>registers. From the asterisk handbook v2 draft, defaultip= is supposed
>to do this, but the setting does not seem to work. I did a tcpdump and
>asterisk never sends a packet out to the ip specified by defaultip=
>until the phone registers.
>
>>  PS: I assume you are talking only about calls from * -> 7960, as you
>>  have not mentioned any debugging that seems to be creating calls in
>>  the other direction.
>
>Calls from the phone to * in the default context always work regardless
>if the telephone is not yet registered - the same as any other unknown
>SIP device. Of course, the phone has to register/authenticate to be
>allowed to make calls in the context specified in the sip.conf entry for
>it. The problem is that calls from * to a yet-unregistered SIP device
>are not even attempted even when defaultip= is specified.
>
>The only current alternative seems to be to set proxy_register to 0 so
>the phone will not register, then specify host=<phone's ip> in sip.conf,
>but the problem with this is that the phone shows the unregistered icons
>next to the line labels (snom and 79XX - probably others)
>
>John
>
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