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 > _______________________________________________ > Sip-implementors mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/sip-implementors _______________________________________________ Sip-implementors mailing list [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/sip-implementors
