[Asterisk-Users] Ok... what is 'sip show peers' really used for?

[Olle E Johansson]

23 mar 2006 kl. 20.12 skrev Douglas Garstang:

> How does it do that? A 'sip show peers' doesn't show an IP address  
> for the peer. Does it store it internally, and not show you when do  
> you a 'sip show peers', or does it pull the IP address from astdb?

Again, astDB is *not* used for sip show peers.

The IP address is stored from the registration in memory. sip show  
peers only show IP addresses for registered dynamic peers
or peers with a static address. "sip show peers" takes data from in- 
memory structures, and not from *any* external source.

Those that have no address are not registered and can't be reached,  
since we have no address for them.

As a response to this discussion, "sip show peers" now clearly  
indicates the peers that are cached realtime
peers in svn trunk so you can see which peers are static and which  
peers that are cached realtime peers.

So in response to the question on the subject line:

Sip show peers is used for
-  Checking whether a SIP peer is dynamic or not (D)
- Checking whether a SIP peer has nat support or not (N)
- Checking whether a dynamic SIP peer is registred (IP address  
visible and D)
- Checking if a monitored peer is reachable
- Checking if a peer has an ACL setting

And in SVN trunk
- Checking whether a peer is a cached realtime peer  or static peer

Hopefully, you're less confused by now and even less again when you  
upgrade to the
coming version.

/O




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