asterisk users - Feb 2005 - breaking friends into users & peers

I am about to start a program that will be generaging sip device 
configurations for sip.conf. My current sip.conf contains friend entries 
for each SIP device connected to asterisk.

Should I even be attempting to split these in to seperate user/peer devices?

Is there(should there be) a convention for referring to the two distinct 
modes of a device?

Can two entries with the same name exist at the same time, if one is a 
friend and the other is a user? Mainly, I'm asking, are the results here 
  undefined, or is this a recognized use?

-- 
Andrew Thompson
http://aktzero.com/
http://dev.asteriskdocs.org/

Andrew Thompson wrote:
> I am about to start a program that will be generaging sip device 
> configurations for sip.conf. My current sip.conf contains friend entries 
> for each SIP device connected to asterisk.
> 
> Should I even be attempting to split these in to seperate user/peer 
> devices?
> 
> Can two entries with the same name exist at the same time, if one is a 
> friend and the other is a user? Mainly, I'm asking, are the results
here
>  undefined, or is this a recognized use?
> 
A type=friend is loaded in Asterisk chan_sip as one peer and one user 
with identical names. You can not define a type=friend *and* type=user
with the same name, since you will end up with two users with the same name.
 > Is there(should there be) a convention for referring to the two distinct
 > modes of a device?
 >
For local phones, type=friend works fine most of the time. When you 
connect to something else, a SIP service or a phone that is connected to 
a SIP proxy, type=friend is propably something that gives you headache, 
because you need to separate configuration for incoming calls and 
outbound calls.

http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk+sip+type

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