[Asterisk-Users] Re: connect more the one phone to ONE sip Acoount

[Olle E Johansson]

Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> Olle E Johansson wrote / skrev:
> 
>> Andreas Koch wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> how is it possible to connect (register)  more the one Phone to One 
>>> Sip-Acoount.
>>>
>>> With, for example sipgate.de this is not a special feature, it is 
>>> common.
>>> We have users, what like to have more then one Phone, -> Homeoffice 
>>> and Desk
>>>
>>> Rigth now if a other phone registers whith the data, the first ist 
>>> removed.
>>>
>> You have to consider that Asterisk is a multiprotocol PBX and that the 
>> PBX need to be in control of each device connected to the PBX. With 
>> multiple registrations for one account we would break the Asterisk 
>> architecture unless we did some very clever stuff. This has been 
>> discussed quite a lot of times, so please search the mailing list for 
>> more information.
> 
> 
> I understand that allowing multiple registrations would break chan_sip, 
> but how can it break the Asterisk architecture if the forking is done by 
> the Dial application? Would it really matter if the dial string contains 
> multiple SIP AOR:s/users, which is possible today, or multiple bindings 
> for one SIP AOR?
> 
> Example of Dial with multiple SIP AOR:s/users, working today:
> Dial(SIP/user1&SIP/user2)
> 
> Example of Dial with multiple bindings for one SIP AOR, expanded by FOO:
> Dial(${FOO(user1)}) => Dial(SIP/user1/10.1.1.1&SIP/user1/10.2.2.2)
> 
That's exactly the solution I've proposed many, many times in the 
asterisk-dev mailing list :-)

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