On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Scott Lawrence
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.


I assume the following strategy is correct:


SIpxBridge never sends a Response with a Requre:100rel but it will
send a PRACK if it sees such a header. It will send a Supported:100rel
so that user agents who want to send such responses may do so.

Ranga


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