[OpenSIPS-Users] Transport follow up

Bogdan-Andrei Iancu bogdan at voice-system.ro
Thu Apr 15 18:02:30 CEST 2010


exactly, and you can configure in opensips cfg whatever sequence of 
protocols to be tried (by doing serial forking).

Regards,
Bogdan

Daniel Goepp wrote:
> If NAPTR was the method being used, but in this case is not setup.  So 
> the problem I'm trying to solve is what to do when the endpoints and 
> the other gateways are not being explicit via either URI or DNS.  The 
> endpoint is not specifying transport in the RURI, and DNS SRV is setup 
> and exists with entries for both TCP and UDP, but no NAPTR.  In this 
> case, it's really leaving it up to the proxy to decide what transport 
> to prefer.
>
> -dg
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Bogdan-Andrei Iancu 
> <bogdan at voice-system.ro <mailto:bogdan at voice-system.ro>> wrote:
>
>     Daniel,
>
>     So, the transport to be used is chosen as follows:
>        A)  if "transport" in URI -> use it
>        B)  if no port in URI, try to use NAPTR
>        B1) if NAPTR -> use the advertised protocols as per weight and
>     priority in NAPTR records (in the given order)
>        B2) if no NAPTR -> it is up to the proxy to choose the protocol
>     (obeying the URI scheme, like sips).
>
>     I guess you are referring to B2 case, which you can do in script,
>     using
>     a serial forking scenario (forcing different protos via $du ).
>
>     Regards,
>     Bogdan
>
>     Daniel Goepp wrote:
>     > I did, but I don't see anything that says it would be a violation of
>     > SIP to try a number of transports in sequence, and to determine that
>     > sequence by the proxy.  And I do understand that this is not a
>     problem
>     > with OpenSIPS, just trying to find a way to accomplish something new
>     > perhaps.  We are working with some other networks which use a
>     > different method of selecting transport.  And we are trying to
>     > implement a similar method to select transport using OpenSIPS.  Very
>     > similar to how route advancing works, but at the transport level.  I
>     > am working now to do it at the scripting level, but just thought
>     this
>     > might be something to consider actually implementing as
>     functionality
>     > at the application level.  Perhaps it is just too unique of a
>     problem
>     > and not worth it.  The problem I believe is UDP is clearly the most
>     > commonly used transport, but as devices get more capable (for
>     example
>     > in our situation with large SDPs for video, and traversing multiple
>     > proxies adding record routes), packet sizes get larger, and TCP
>     > becomes a more reliable transport.  Additionally many folks we work
>     > with would prefer that is a secure connection is available, then it
>     > should be used.  So the defaults on their network proxies will
>     attempt
>     > in the order of TLS, TCP then UDP to place a call.
>     >
>     > I will continue my work to try to get this going, but thought I
>     would
>     > post for comments here to get thoughts on the matter, or
>     > recommendations on how this would be best implemented using
>     OpenSIPS.
>     >
>     > Thanks.
>     >
>     > -dg
>     >
>     >
>     > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:59 AM, Bogdan-Andrei Iancu
>     > <bogdan at voice-system.ro <mailto:bogdan at voice-system.ro>
>     <mailto:bogdan at voice-system.ro <mailto:bogdan at voice-system.ro>>>
>     wrote:
>     >
>     >     Hi Daniel,
>     >
>     >
>     >     Have you read RFC3263 about Locating SIP Servers  (with proto
>     >     selection)  ?
>     >
>     >        http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3263.txt
>     >
>     >     Regards,
>     >     Bogdan
>     >
>     >     Daniel Goepp wrote:
>     >     > I had a previous question regarding default transport, and the
>     >     > response I got was that the RFC says the order should be UDP,
>     >     TCP then
>     >     > TLS.  However after reading into this further (and some recent
>     >     > experiences with other platforms) I'm wondering if I have
>     a new
>     >     > feature request for OpenSIPS.  >From the RFC 3263 -
>     Section 4.1
>     >     > Selecting a Transport Protocol, I read it as saying:
>     >     >
>     >     > 1.  If specified in the RURI it SHOULD use this (but doesn't
>     >     have to)
>     >     > 2.  Bunch of stuff on NAPTR (which we are not doing)
>     >     > 3.  The section related to what we are doing:
>     >     >
>     >     > -----clip-----
>     >     > If no NAPTR records are found, the client constructs SRV
>     queries for
>     >     > those transport protocols it supports, and does a query
>     for each.
>     >     > Queries are done using the service identifier "_sip" for SIP
>     >     URIs and
>     >     > "_sips" for SIPS URIs. A particular transport is supported
>     if the
>     >     > query is successful. The client MAY use any transport
>     protocol it
>     >     > desires which is supported by the server.
>     >     >
>     >     > This is a change from RFC 2543. It specified that a client
>     would
>     >     > lookup SRV records for all transports it supported, and
>     merge the
>     >     > priority values across those records. Then, it would
>     choose the
>     >     > most preferred record.
>     >     >
>     >     > If no SRV records are found, the client SHOULD use TCP for
>     a SIPS
>     >     > URI, and UDP for a SIP URI. However, another transport
>     protocol,
>     >     > such as TCP, MAY be used if the guidelines of SIP mandate
>     it for
>     >     this
>     >     > particular request. That is the case, for example, for
>     requests that
>     >     > exceed the path MTU.
>     >     > -----clip-----
>     >     >
>     >     > The way I read this is that OpenSIPS MAY select whatever
>     >     transport it
>     >     > likes, and if no DNS SRV is found, then it would default to
>     >     using UDP
>     >     > first for SIP.  But in our set, DNS SRV does exist, and there
>     >     are both
>     >     > TCP and UDP records.  We would like to decide the default
>     transport
>     >     > order to use, starting with TLS then TCP then UDP.  I think I
>     >     can try
>     >     > to write something in the script to do this, but I'm not sure
>     >     yet.  I
>     >     > don't want to rewrite the RURI, I just want to specify the
>     >     transport.
>     >     > It would be great if there was a global variable defined
>     in the
>     >     config
>     >     > that was something like "transport_order=TLS,TCP,UDP"
>     >     >
>     >     > Thoughts?
>     >     >
>     >     > -dg
>     >     >
>     >    
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