[asterisk-users] iax2: two users can't authenticate from same ip address

[Sean Darcy]

On 09/09/2013 08:04 AM, Julian Beach wrote:
> Hello Sean,
>
> Sunday, September 8, 2013, 11:25:24 PM, you wrote:
>
>> The problem is that once a phone has used the server, no other phone can
>> use it. The servers sees all the phones as having the same ip address
>> (though different ports).
>
> This  sounds  like  the  Peer v Friend problem I have had in the past.
> Try  setting  user=friend which will match on the username and not IP
> address.  I  found  that asterisk was matching to the first account in
> the  list  in  IAX.CONF  and  authentication  was  then failing (or in
> the case of incoming calls, ending up in the wrong context).
>
> http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+SIP+user+vs+peer
>
> Julian
>
>
Thanks for the response.

On the server each device has type=friend.

I do notice that peer "home" has the standard iax port 4569. The other 
peers are assigned 1026, 1027 and 1028. How are these ports assigned?

sean