> From: Alpa Ashar
>
> Does SIP protocol provide any mechanism to perform MAC
> address based authentication? If not, then what could be the
> alternate way of doing this?

Generally speaking, SIP does not because it is difficult in general to
discern the MAC address of the user agent that is making a request.  IP
routers and SIP proxies will always change the MAC address on the SIP
packet.

Dale

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