Daniel Botelho P. Moraes
2006-Aug-09 13:51 UTC
[asterisk-users] Mac Address Authentication Methods
Hello all ! I am looking for a way to use an ata or ipphone mac address as a part of the sip registration. I've tried using arp tables, but it only works on local networks not thru the internet.. I know that vonage uses some kind of mac auth, but I think that this is an special feature of their equipments ain't it? Have anyone accomplished this? Any ideas would be very very appreciated Thanks Daniel Botelho P. Moraes Email/Msn: daniel@instatelco.com Tel.:+55-11-8183-8896
Daniel Botelho P. Moraes wrote:> Hello all ! > > I am looking for a way to use an ata or ipphone mac address as a part of the > sip registration. > I've tried using arp tables, but it only works on local networks not thru > the internet.. > I know that vonage uses some kind of mac auth, but I think that this is an > special feature of their equipments ain't it? > Have anyone accomplished this? > Any ideas would be very very appreciatedThe vonage stuff uses the mac address "string" because it is guaranteed to be unique, and that string is available for scripts within (at least some of) the ata's to use. Vonage does not have access to the mac address from a networking perspective, which is what you've already noted. If you wanted to come up with some sort of mass-produced ata style box that could register itself with servers and use a unique password, what would you use? (Probably the mac address combined with an additional string.) If you look at the sipura devices (and other devices with sipura software), you'll find the mac address is readily available and preloaded into a script variable for you to use.