[Asterisk-Users] Re: two UA with the same usr/pwd

[Eric Wieling aka ManxPower]

I ring multiple phones ALL THE TIME without needing duplicate 
username/secrets.  The following line wrapped, but you can still see 
what's happening.  When someone dials extension 3400 the devices with 
SIP the three SIP usernames (we set them to MAC-[a|b|c|d] where the 
letter indicates which line on the phone.)  We set each line on each 
phone to a seperate name.

exten => 
3400,1,Dial(SIP/0004f201862c-b&SIP/0004f201fb0e-b&SIP/0004f201e6a3-b,30)


> Regardless of what has (or has not) been implemented in asterisk, there
> is a very valid business reason for wanting an extension number to ring
> on multiple phones and to determine the status of an extension from
> multiple phones. Business have needed (and implemented) that for years.
> Having such an implementation in asterisk would definitely be a major
> plus (regardless of what our definitions of a pbx and keysystem happen
> to be).
> 
> 
> 
>>Many people seem to want this feature.  I think they are just 
>>confused.  I've never actually heard of a good reason to let multiple 
>>devices register with the same username/secret.  Most of the time they 
>>  want a call to ring on multiple devices and they are trying to make 
>>a device == extension, which is not correct.  A device is a device and 
>>an extension is an extension and they are not the same thing and there 
>>is no 1-to-1 mapping between them.


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