[asterisk-users] Peer and User Clarification

[Alex Balashov]

All endpoints are peers, in the broad sense of "entities in sip.conf". This includes phones, gateways, provider endpoints, etc.  

When a phone makes a call through an Asterisk server, it initiates a call leg to Asterisk, which is matched to a sip.conf peer.  Asterisk then initiates a second call leg through another sip.conf peer, and bridges the two legs together.  Both are anchored by peers.

The "type" of the peer (the type= setting) is a configuration detail that changes some minor aspects of how the endpoint is treated, but whether the type is "friend", "peer", etc. it's still a peer. They are largely the same.

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Alex Balashov - Principal
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On Oct 23, 2011, at 5:46 AM, Elliot Murdock <murdocke at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello All,
> 
> It seems from the Asterisk documentation, a User places phone calls
> into the Asterisk server and a Peers accepts phone calls from the
> Asterisk server.
> 
> However, according to the document describing the "register =>"
> command for sip.conf, it seems that Peers can in fact place calls into
> an Asterisk system.  Is this correct and how is this working?
> 
> Thanks,
> Elliot
> 
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