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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brevity, errors, and general sloppiness.
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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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