Configure VoIP Peers

To configure DID for a particular POTS dial peer, use the following commands beginning in global configuration mode:

Step

Command

Purpose

1

dial-peer voice number pots

Enter the dial-peer configuration mode to configure

 

 

a POTS peer.

 

 

 

2

direct-inward-dial

Specify direct inward dial for this POTS peer.

 

 

 

Note Direct inward dial is configured for the calling POTS dial peer.

For additional POTS dial-peer configuration options, refer to the “Voice-Related Commands” section of the Voice, Video, and Home Applications Command Reference.

Configure VoIP Peers

Once again, VoIP peers enable outgoing calls to be made from a particular telephony device. To configure a VoIP peer, you need to uniquely identify the peer (by assigning it a unique tag number), define its destination telephone number and destination IP address. As with POTS peers, under most circumstances, the default values for the remaining dial-peer configuration commands will be adequate to establish connections.

To enter the dial-peer configuration mode (and select VoIP as the method of voice-related encapsulation), use the following command in global configuration mode:

Command

Purpose

dial-peer voice number voip

Enter the dial-peer configuration mode to configure a VoIP

 

peer.

 

 

The number value of the dial-peer voice voip command is a tag that uniquely identifies the dial peer.

To configure the identified VoIP peer, use the following commands in dial-peer configuration mode:

Step

Command

Purpose

1

destination-pattern string

Define the destination telephone

 

 

number associated with this VoIP dial

 

 

peer.

 

 

 

2

session target {ipv4:destination-address

Specify a destination IP address for this

 

dns:host-name}

dial peer.

 

 

 

For additional VoIP dial-peer configuration options, refer to the “Voice-Related Commands” section of the Voice, Video, and Home Applications Command Reference. For examples of how to configure dial peers, refer to the section, “Voice over IP Configuration Examples.”

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