Could you tell us a little bit how exactly it works? The wiki pages don't
say much about type=friend, user, and peer. I tried using type=user but
can't seem to register.
A type=friend is simply both a type=user and type=peer using the same set of config directives. While a type=friend makes things almost trivial to get calls working in both directions, it will limit the flexibility of your config and even hinder some of the more advanced uses of Asterisk.
For example: Say you want to use the same 'user' across many different Asterisk boxes, which of course will have different IP addresses. In this situation, you cannot have a host keyword in your Asterisk config stanza for the type=user, but the type=peer requires some host keyword. Thus, if you use a type=friend you will limit the use of that one username to whatever IP address is contained in the host keyword.
You only need to register to Asterisk if you have a dynamic IP address or you need to blow thru a firewall/NAT device. To register you need to have a type=peer with a host=dynamic. Since in your type=friend config directive you had host=some.ip.address, while this may be this is fine to for the type=user, this same value also gets used for the type=peer, which makes it so you cannot register since the IP address is hard coded.
So, either you do not need to register and things will Just Work(tm) or you will need to use separate type=user and type=peer config directives.
I smell the beginnings of a Whitepaper here.
Jeremy McNamara
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeremy McNamara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 2:47 AM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Minor Registration Problem With Polycom Soun
dpoint IP 500
mattf wrote:problem.
I have all of my Polycom's set to friend so I know that's not your
One day you too will get bitten by the type=friend's EVIL and you will see the light.
Trust me,
Jeremy McNamara
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