asterisk users - Mar 2003 - Sip registration Timers

Hello,

I have my sip stuff seemingly working fine as well as my zaptel stuff 
working great... But I have a problem with sip registration timers (I'm 
guessing here).

In my extensions.conf file I have this...

exten => 2244,1,Dial,Zap/2|25
exten => 2244,2,Dial,Sip/brian|25
exten => 2244,3,VoiceMail,u2244

But if I close my sip phone and a call goes through it will still wait 
the 25 seconds before it goes to voice mail even though my Sip phone is 
not even on. If I restart Asterisk and do not register my sip phone it 
will go straight to voice mail after no one picks up on Zap/2. Is there 
a way to force asterisk to keep checking on this phone say every few 
seconds (5)? Callers are getting confused as to why the long dead air 
and usually hang up and call back in.

Brian J. Schrock
Network Engineer, RHCE, CCNA
Anistone Technologies
Phone: 614-537-2817
FAX: 614-573-7165
6926 Avery Rd.
Dublin, OH 43017

> But if I close my sip phone and a call goes through it will still wait
> the 25 seconds before it goes to voice mail even though my Sip phone is
> not even on. If I restart Asterisk and do not register my sip phone it
> will go straight to voice mail after no one picks up on Zap/2. Is there
> a way to force asterisk to keep checking on this phone say every few
> seconds (5)? Callers are getting confused as to why the long dead air
> and usually hang up and call back in.
You can add a "qualify=1000" to your SIP phone and that will cause
Asterisk to consider your SIP phone to be "unavailble" should it take
over
1000ms to respond (1 second).

Mark