( I sent this Mon afternoon, however I didn't see it appear list ) -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 4:39 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Auto-configure an outbound proxy I've seen several approaches for configuring an outbound proxy. The FAQ suggests using DHCP or SLP. PHONECTL was another option. In draft-kempf-sip-findsrv-00.txt (Feb 2000) there was a statement in the introduction that says "... a UAC can send an INVITE message via multicast in order to determine its local outbound proxy." Consider the following: if I multicast an INVITE request with Max-Forwards: 0 and then wait for the proxies listening on the multicast address to respond with 483 Too Many Hops. The UAC could use the address the 483 came from as the value of the outbound proxy and unicast future requests through this proxy. Would this be another valid approach to finding an outbound proxy? Any thoughts? The reason for adding the Max-Forwards: 0 header was to get a quick response from a proxy. This way the UA can send out this request when the device starts up and get a response fairly quickly to set the outbound proxy. Thanks, -Jeff -- Jeff Mark Intel Dialogic Division Software Engineer 201 Mentor Dr, Suite 100 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Barbara, CA 93111 http://www.dialogic.com (805) 879-3640 PGP KeyID: 0x6A0DC407 (805) 967-1395 fax http://www.keyserver.net _______________________________________________ Sip-implementors mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/sip-implementors
