[Asterisk-Users] Newbie's doubt on sip.conf

[Mitchel Constantin]

Your probably going to get this url (www.voip-info.org) thrown at you
by a few other people too...check there if you haven't already for
more information.

-mitchel

On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 00:45:53 -0400 (EDT), kaiduan xie <kaiduanx at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have some doubts on sip.conf.
> 
> 1) Can I have two or more SIP phones acting as
> extensions in one Asterisk box, and at the same time,
> registered to a SIP proxy, say Free World Dialup? If
> yes, how?
> 
> 2) Why we need a section in the sip.conf for the
> proxy, say, Free World Dialup's fwd.pulver.com? In the
> case of 1), how to assign the value to section
> [fwd.pulver.com], since there are more than one sip
> phone, each with different FWD number?
> 
> [fwd.pulver.com]
> 
> type=friend
> 
> secret=mypassword
> 
> username=my fwd number
> 
> host=fwd.pulver.com
> 
> 3) Can anyone explain the meaning of "peer", "friend",
> "user" in more details? For each case, what is the
> role of Asterisk in SIP world, a UA, a proxy, or
> others?
> 
> 4) If we only use SIP phone as extensions in Asterisk,
> the SIP phone doesnot associate with outside proxy,
> does Asterisk act as a proxy for inter-extension call
> between the SIP phones? In this case, for the outgoing
> call originating from SIP phone to other network,
> say, PSTN, does Asterisk act as a gateway? (PSTN
> connection with Asterisk is assumed.)
> 
> Any comments are welcome, thanks,
> 
> kaiduan
> 
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