asterisk users - Mar 2006 - Realtime Users/Peers/Friends - Ick

I've been going in circles for a few weeks now with Realtime SIP.
 
My extconfig.conf has:
 
sipusers => mysql,dbname,ast_sip_users
sippeers => mysql,dbname,ast_sip_users
 
When I do a 'sip show peers' I see all my phones. When I do a 'sip
show users' I only see a few of them. I can't work out why this is the
case. They are also coming up with NAT as 'RFC3581', eventhough I have
nat set to NO for every friend in the ast_sip_users table.
 
In short, phones make and receive calls, so they should be defined as
type=friend, right? Should I point sipusers and sippeers from extconfig to the
same table? Why does 'extconfig' have sipusers and sippeers? This is
driving me nuts! Is this actually documented anywhere?
 
Doug.

I just tried setting all my phone's to type=peer.
Seems to break everything. I heard that type=friend was going to be phased out
in upcoming releases of Asterisk. I sure hope the developers have thought this
though.
 
Reason? Well our phones send calls to Asterisk through OpenSER. We have multiple
OpenSER systems that the calls may hit Asterisk from. When I set all my phone
accounts in my sip peers table to type=peer, Asterisk no longer matches against
them, and instead matches against the OUTGOING OpenSER proxy entries (we place
calls to the PSTN through OpenSER too). I guess it does this because it matches
the source IP address of the INVITE against the host= value against the proxy in
sip.conf.
 
Asterisk responds with:
--- (14 headers 14 lines)---
Using INVITE request as basis request -
B9AC094A-98C7-4015-9989-8024E5BB62C5@192.168.1.101
Sending to xxx.187.142.205 : 5060 (non-NAT)
Found no matching peer or user for 'xxx.187.142.205:5060'
 
Bottom line is that incoming calls from phones through OpenSER no longer match
against the individual phones accounts, but against the outgoing (they have
PEER!) OpenSER proxy entries. Now that I think about it, why the heck do
incoming calls match against a type=peer entry anyway? I thought a peer was for
outgoing calls only???
 
Is this the way it's going to work in some future release of Asterisk?
 
Btw, I tried setting the phones to peer because I don't know what the frig
I'm doing.
 
Doug
 

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: Douglas Garstang 
	Sent: Wed 3/29/2006 10:01 PM 
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	Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Realtime Users/Peers/Friends - Ick
	
	

	I've been going in circles for a few weeks now with Realtime SIP.
	
	My extconfig.conf has:
	
	sipusers => mysql,dbname,ast_sip_users
	sippeers => mysql,dbname,ast_sip_users
	
	When I do a 'sip show peers' I see all my phones. When I do a 'sip
show users' I only see a few of them. I can't work out why this is the
case. They are also coming up with NAT as 'RFC3581', eventhough I have
nat set to NO for every friend in the ast_sip_users table.
	
	In short, phones make and receive calls, so they should be defined as
type=friend, right? Should I point sipusers and sippeers from extconfig to the
same table? Why does 'extconfig' have sipusers and sippeers? This is
driving me nuts! Is this actually documented anywhere?
	
	Doug.