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

[C F]

My output from a small asterisk system with 7 peers:

pbx*CLI> sip show peers
Name/username              Host            Dyn Nat ACL Port     Status
854/854            xx.xx.xx.116                5060     OK (55 ms)
105/105                    192.168.1.86     D          5060     Unmonitored
120/120                    (Unspecified)    D          0        Unmonitored
104/104                    192.168.1.79     D          5060     Unmonitored
103/103                    192.168.1.77     D          5060     Unmonitored
102/102                    192.168.1.81     D          5060     Unmonitored
101/101                    192.168.1.75     D          5060     Unmonitored
7 sip peers [7 online , 0 offline]

120 didn't register for a while (its a softphone on a laptop)
therefore it's Unspecified, and because it's unmonitored, it's
considered online.


On 3/23/06, Douglas Garstang <dgarstang at oneeighty.com> wrote:
> 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?
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: C F [mailto:shmaltz at gmail.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 11:40 AM
> > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Ok... what is 'sip show peers'
> > really used
> > for?
> >
> >
> > I use it to order pizza. Just kidding, but among others it tells you
> > what IP address Asterisk knows for a peer, as well as the qualify
> > status.
> >
> > On 3/23/06, Douglas Garstang <dgarstang at oneeighty.com> wrote:
> > > I'd love to understand what the function of the peer list
> > returned by 'sip show peers' is for, especially when Realtime is used.
> > >
> > > If I start Asterisk with realtime enabled, a 'sip show
> > peers' yields none. As each peer (phone) registers, or a call
> > is made to the peer, Asterisk adds them to the list returned
> > by 'sip show peers'. Correct?
> > >
> > > Apparently Asterisk doesn't refer to thie list however,
> > when deciding where a peer is located. It uses astdb instead
> > (I have rtcachefriends=yes). I cleared the fullcontact field
> > in the database, and placed a call. The only place that
> > Asterisk could get the peer's IP address from was astdb, as
> > the peer wasn't in 'sip show peers' as I purposefully cleared
> > the fullcontact field for all peers in the database.
> > >
> > > So... what's the point of this? Is it used for anything? It
> > looks like it uses it for voicemail, but that's it. Ie if the
> > peer isn't in 'sip show peers' then voicemail does not get
> > delivered, EVEN if it's in astdb.
> > >
> > > Also, if all my phones are defined as friends, why does a
> > 'sip show friends' return a smaller list than 'sip show
> > peers'??? If the phones are all defined as friends, which are
> > both peer and user, then a 'sip show friends' should return
> > all the phones, but it does not.
> > >
> > > No wonder I'm confused.
> > >
> > > :(
> > >
> > > Doug.
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