BTW, wouldn't a sensible solution be to allow force_tcp_alias() to operate on 
replies? But as I understand the documentation, it only works on requests. 
Right?

—
Sent from mobile, apologies for brevity and errors.

> On Feb 22, 2025, at 5:51 PM, Alex Balashov <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am converting a Kamailio WSS/TLS gateway to pure TCP, with an external 
> HAProxy handling TLS termination and emitting the proxied connection as plain 
> TCP. I am using the PROXYv2 protocol, with `tcp_accept_haproxy=yes`, to 
> convey the upstream network and transport-layer reachability info into 
> Kamailio.
> 
> I am trying to figure out best practices for mapping the contacts on those 
> connections to the proxied connections themselves.
> 
> For registrations, tcp_force_alias() (with `tcp_accept_aliases=yes`) works 
> well, and inbound calls go to the right place. However, I'm not quite sure 
> what to do with other flows, such as, for example, in-dialog requests on 
> inbound calls going to the TLS endpoints.
> 
> There are obviously a lot of possibilities, all or most of which I've 
> tinkered with. These generally involve either {s.replace}-ing 
> `;transport=tls` with `;transport=tcp` in the contacts received from the 
> client, or using the traditional `nathelper` contact alias / RURI alias bag 
> of tricks. However, I don't like the former solution because it leads to a 
> non-compliant R-URI going to the endpoint (it's not the ;transport it sent in 
> its contact), and I don't like the latter because it seems like there are too 
> many moving parts.
> 
> When tcp_force_alias() works so well for registrations, there must be some 
> small linchpin I'm missing for normal request-reply flows. What is it?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> -- Alex
> 
> --
> Alex Balashov
> Principal Consultant
> Evariste Systems LLC
> Web: https://evaristesys.com
> Tel: +1-706-510-6800
> 
__________________________________________________________
Kamailio - Users Mailing List - Non Commercial Discussions -- 
[email protected]
To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
Important: keep the mailing list in the recipients, do not reply only to the 
sender!

Reply via email to