Mossman, Paul (CAR:9D30) wrote:
> Bob wrote:
>> There is another dimension to the problem which goes beyond 
>> the inefficient use of resources.  Basically, when a MOH 
>> session is left dangling, the phone that was involved in that 
>> MOH continues to be hammered with RTP packets.  If that phone 
>> takes part in a new call before the dangling MOH is cleaned 
>> up then that phone will be subjected to two RTP streams (the 
>> dangling MOH stream and the legitimate one from the far-end) 
>> and in the case of Polycom, because of the way it re-uses the 
>> same RTP port across media sessions, it will receive two 
>> different RTP streams on its media port which will confuse it 
>> and will result in silence being played out.
> 
> Ah yes, that is quite severe.
> 
> Also, sipXpark continues to send OPTIONS on this dialog, I suppose
> because the Polycom did not terminae it.  The Polycom is happily
> returning OK, and so it would seem that the dangling dialog is not
> actually being cleaned up after all.
> 

Looks like the polycom phones wrongly treat in-dialog OPTIONS the same way as 
out-of-dialog OPTIONS. So, in this case, the 'keep alive' mechanism will not be 
able to clean up the dangling MOH session, and as Bob said, you will have a 
stray RTP session (for 24 hours before it is torn down).

Arjun
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