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Local Dial Peers<br />

To route a received <strong>voice</strong> call to the right <strong>de</strong>stination, the router needs to know which telephone<br />

number belongs to each <strong>voice</strong> <strong>port</strong>. For instance, if a call comes in for 408 555-3737, the router needs<br />

to know that this telephone is connected to <strong>voice</strong> <strong>port</strong> 2/0/0 (as <strong>show</strong>n in Figure 12). In other words,<br />

the router needs to know the information in Table 1.<br />

To hold this information, Cisco IOS software uses objects called dial peers. A telephone number, a<br />

<strong>voice</strong> <strong>port</strong>, and other call parameters are tied together by associating them all with the same dial peer.<br />

Configuring dial peers is similar to configuring static IP routes—you are telling the router what path<br />

to follow to route the call.<br />

Dial peers are i<strong>de</strong>ntified by numbers, but to avoid confusing these numbers with telephone numbers,<br />

they are usually referred to as tags. Dial peer tags are integers that can range from 1 to 231 -1<br />

(2147483647), which should be enough for most purposes. Dial peers on the same router must have<br />

unique tags, but you can reuse the tags on other routers.<br />

Table 2 assigns each phone number-<strong>voice</strong> <strong>port</strong> pair on the West router a dial peer tag. Within the<br />

allowed range, you can choose any dial peer tag or any system that is convenient or makes sense to<br />

you. This type of dial peer is called a POTS dial peer or a local dial peer. The term “POTS” (plain<br />

old telephone service) means that the dial peer associates a physical <strong>voice</strong> <strong>port</strong> with a local telephone<br />

<strong>de</strong>vice. (Another type of dial peer is explained in the section “Calling Between Routers.”)<br />

Table 2 West Router Local Dial Peers<br />

Telephone Number Voice Port Dial Peer Tag<br />

408 555-3737 2/0/0 401<br />

408 555-4141 2/0/1 402<br />

You should construct a table similar to Table 2 for your own routers, assigning your own telephone<br />

numbers and dial peer tags.<br />

Note The telephone numbers used in this gui<strong>de</strong> are only examples, and are generally invalid for<br />

public use in the United States. When you configure your network, be sure to substitute your own<br />

telephone numbers.<br />

To configure the router with the information in the table, enter the following commands in global<br />

configuration mo<strong>de</strong>:<br />

West(config)# dial-peer <strong>voice</strong> 401 pots<br />

West(config-dial-peer)# <strong>de</strong>st-pat +14085553737<br />

West(config-dial-peer)# <strong>port</strong> 2/0/0<br />

West(config)# dial-peer <strong>voice</strong> 402 pots<br />

West(config-dial-peer)# <strong>de</strong>st-pat +14085554141<br />

West(config-dial-peer)# <strong>port</strong> 2/0/1<br />

West(config-dial-peer)# exit<br />

West(config)#<br />

These commands are summarized in Figure 13.<br />

Local Dial Peers<br />

Voice over IP Quick Start Gui<strong>de</strong> 17

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