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[mcollins at fcnetwork.com]

You don't setup gateways to receive calls. You can just have your provider send as many did's at you as they feel free to send. Just don't auth-calls on that profile that all the did's hit. A gateway has nothing to do with DID's it just registers to the far side and is used when they challenge us.

/b

Brian,

Thank you!! Your words that I’ve put in bold are highly critical to understanding what a gateway is used for, and conversely, what it is not used for. On a hunch I searched the wiki for the word “gateway” and I didn’t find a single page that presents this information. I would like to propose that we create a page like “What is a gateway and why do I need one” that could be a smaller part of the bigger SIP/VoIP documentation picture. We could then link to that page from the GSG as well as link back to the GSG and other relevant topics from the GW page. Or perhaps someone has another idea we could discuss.

Thoughts from the community?

Thanks,
MC