Configuring Router Dial Peers

Introduction

At this point in the Quick Reference Sheets, you have seen how to configure voice ports on Cisco voice-enabled routers. However, you have not yet trained the routers to reach specific destinations. That is the focus of this section. Specifically, you are going to create dial peers that inform the routers how to reach specific phone numbers. Consider the following topology.

Routers R1 and R2 each have a plain old telephone service (POTS) dial peer that points to their locally attached phone and a VoIP dial peer that points to the IP address of the remote router.

Therefore, when extension 1111 dials extension 2222, router R1 searches for a dial peer that matches a destination pattern of 2222. In this case, ...

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