There is a draft being discussed on the SIP list right now to implement
a PING method.  See http://www.cornfed.com/ping.txt or
http://www.cornfed.com/ping.html for the most recent version.  All
comments are welcome since this is a very new draft.

FM


On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 11:07 -0500, Sweeney, Andrew (Andrew) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>       I am looking for any draft of RFC that defines how to basically 
> heartbeat a sip device to know if it is active. Basically in a fault tolerent 
> enviroment
>       I don't want to send a request to a non responsive device. Presumably I 
> would have knowlege of a backup.
> 
>       I have implemented a version of sending periodic OPTIONS requests to my 
> devices as a form of heartbeat but it could take up to the invite timeout to  
>   know if they are alive. That can be a long time.
> 
>       Is there any universal method for handling this? Is there any RFCs or 
> Drafts for SIP in a fault tolerent enviroment?
> 
> Thanks
> Andy
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