[asterisk-users] Peer and User Clarification

[Elliot Murdock]

Hello,

Thank you for the response.

Does that mean when setting up a realtime system, one does not need to
specify both sippeers and sippusers?

Thanks,
Elliot

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Alex Balashov
<abalashov at evaristesys.com> wrote:
> 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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> 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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