[asterisk-users] Re: Can you explain why multiple registration is an important (missing) feature ?

[Tomislav Parčina]

In article <450AA905.10509 at fnords.org>, eric at fnords.org says...
> And there is your problem.  Using the extension as the SIP User ID does 
> not scale, is confusing, and limits your thinking about devices and 
> extensions.  There are several reasons this is a bad idea.  Multiple 
> extension numbers ringing on the same device / line appearance is the 
> most common.
> 
> We use the MAC address of the device as the SIP User ID.  We append a 
> -a, -b, -c, etc to the MAC address for each line appearance.  This does 
> not work well for Softphone, but since All Softphones Suck(TM), we don't 
> really care about this limitation.
> 
> Users seldom need to know their SIP User ID.

Can you please tell me more about this. I don't follow you weary well. I understand that we need to treat phone and users different, but I don't thing that is easy to do with Asterisk 1.2. Maybe something will change, but till then...



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