asterisk users - Apr 2005 - SIP phones to Asterisk using MAC address insteadof IP address

> Hi,
> 
> I know this can be done but I guess I am not understanding 
> the few notes 
> I have seen on this - can SIP phones be tied to Asterisk 
> using a PC mac 
> address instead of their IP address (obviously I am using DHCP). If 
> someone could please point to the right Wiki or How to I 
> would greatly 
> appreciate it.
> 
I would do this by using IP reservations on the DHCP server. Most DHCP
servers will allow you to set a reservation of a paricular IP address to
a particular MAC address.

You may not be able to use this if you have more phones than available
IP addresses of course.

I couldn't see anything in
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+config+sip.conf that would help
your cause directly.

Giles

If you setup host=dynamic in sip.conf, then the registration does not depend
on ip address. It depends on sip user name of sip URI. You need to provision
sip user name inside each phone. Please bare in mind that it is different
then sip authentication name.

Hope this helps

Alex

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Discussion
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] SIP phones to Asterisk using MAC
addressinsteadof IP address
> Hi,
> 
> I know this can be done but I guess I am not understanding 
> the few notes 
> I have seen on this - can SIP phones be tied to Asterisk 
> using a PC mac 
> address instead of their IP address (obviously I am using DHCP). If 
> someone could please point to the right Wiki or How to I 
> would greatly 
> appreciate it.
> 
I would do this by using IP reservations on the DHCP server. Most DHCP
servers will allow you to set a reservation of a paricular IP address to
a particular MAC address.

You may not be able to use this if you have more phones than available
IP addresses of course.

I couldn't see anything in
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+config+sip.conf that would help
your cause directly.

Giles
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