Well we can get into a long conceptual discussion here... In my opinion SIP 
does provide some nice recoverability/HA built-in support, by having state/path 
info incorporated in the messages (e.g Route list, Contact etc).

-uri

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The gist is that Sip signalling does not support high-availability. Which is 
quite odd as a number of telephony and ATM signalling protocols support HA.

-suheel
Suheel Hussain
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>For call control, if contact has IP, subsequent msgs
within dialog will 
>use that IP. I would think msgs will be dropped if
failover occurs to 
>diff IP.

>Same with audio stream sent to specific IP/port.
>-- Jason

>>UA1 is not supposed to maintain IP address as part
of the dialogue. In may cases it wouldn't even know
what is the IP address of the b2bua as the SIP
messages may go through intermediate hops (e.g.
proxy). All 
>>should be fine as long as the call-leg (dialog)
identifiers are kept the 
>>same (call-id, local and remote tags (in the From
and To headers 
>>respectively)).

>Hope everyone is in agreement w/ me...

>-uri

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