On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 10:46 -0400, Hegner, Travis wrote:
> >If the UA ignores INVITEs that have four Via headers, it is *severely* 
> >broken.
> 
> Not necessarily...
> 
> I have a similar problem where my provider won't accept fragmented UDP
> packets, nor will they accept SIP over TCP. IMO this is a shortcoming
> of sipx that should be addressed. A single SIP Proxy should only
> require a single via header. Sipx is very liberal with the packet size
> consider there isn't much room to work with before the packet becomes
> fragmented.
> 
> My temporary work around for this is to use a stripped down asterisk
> box for forwarding calls only. It re-originates the call and therefore
> eliminates all previous via headers from it's point out. I recommend
> using the "canreinvite" features of the SIP trunks in asterisk to
> allow direct media.

The sipXbridge that is in the 3.11 development builds also reoriginates
calls, partly for this reason.

That doesn't change the fact that a SIP implementation that can't
reassemble fragmented UDP and can't use TCP is badly broken.

-- 
Scott Lawrence  tel:+1.781.229.0533;ext=162 or sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  sipXecs project coordinator - SIPfoundry http://www.sipfoundry.org/sipXecs
  CTO, Voice Solutions   - Bluesocket Inc. http://www.bluesocket.com/ 
                                           http://www.pingtel.com/

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