On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 11:37 -0400, Dale Worley wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 10:13 -0400, Scott Lawrence wrote:
> > I've been seeing a lot of 3.11 traces lately in which Polycom phones
> > send 'Require: 100rel' in 180 responses.
> 
> I assume these are responses to requests that contain "Supported:
> 100rel".

> > Is there some reason why someone thought this was a good thing?
> > 
> > It adds quite a lot of traffic to the system, and I am not aware of any
> > reason why we need it.  If this is currently the default setting in our
> > Polycom (or any other vendor) configurations, then I think we should
> > change it to _not_ request reliable provisional responses.
> 
> There seems to be a general attitude in the SIP community that reliable
> provisional responses are a Good Thing.

The reasons for using them have to do with doing ISDN signaling
translation - a gateway will send 'Require: 100rel' to elicit the PRACK
so that it can do a better job on the ISDN side.

On the phone side, they don't really do anything but clutter up the
proxy with extra messages.


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