I am new to Asterisk and I'm setting up my first Asterisk box. When recieving inbound SIP calls from sipphone.com my friends would not get the ringing indicator after I did an answer command. I found that after playing a gsm file first the ringing started to work like it did for my pots incoming calls. I created a short virtually silent gsm file and that worked as well if played before the dial command. Just wondering why SIP works this way and if there is a better solution. BTW, I'm not using the "r" parameter to the dial command. John