[Asterisk-Users] CISCO 7905 Phone Weirdness

[Rich Adamson]

> It seems on my phone, which is hooked up to a large pbx network powered by 
> an asterisk server, that it will randomly start ringing with a callerid# 
> of 2013 which is its username for that phone. I have looked and been 
> watching on the asterisk command line with the -vvvvvvr switch and nothing 
> has been seen that indicates a reason for this random ringing. This leads 
> me to think that this trouble is not involving the asterisk server, 
> however I am bothered by it and would like to find out what is causing the 
> trouble.
> 
> I was wondering, does anyone here have any ideas as to what might be 
> causing the weird riging, or if not what is causing it, are there any 
> suggestions as to what to look into to find a possible source of the problem.

I don't use the 7905's, but might try:

- use ethereal to see if the call is actually initiated from something
external to the phone

- if you are using sip firmware, implement telnet within the phone, telnet
to it, and look at some of the debug options