November 2006 - sr-users

[Serusers] Digest Authentication with Tenor DX
by Ashutosh Kumar 29 Apr '25

29 Apr '25

Hi, Does someone have any idea/experience with Quintum DX radius server's support for digest mode authentication. The Access-Request packets sent by SER are getting an error back. Guide. Regards, Ashutosh Kumar Chetu, Inc. Ph : 1(305) 402 6724 - Witin US Ph : 91 120 5323340 - Outside US Fax:1 (305) 832 5987 For more information, please visit http://www.chetu.com

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[Serusers] ser-0.9.6: modules/postgres bugreport & patch
by Alexandre Snarskii 13 Oct '08

13 Oct '08

Hi! I'm running ser-0.9.6, on FreeBSD 6.1-stable, database backend is postgresql version 8.1.3. Today I got errors in logfiles, saying: messages.2.bz2:May 29 14:35:03 <XXX> /usr/local/sbin/ser[51448]: ERROR:avpops:dbrow2avp: dbrow contains NULL fields The similar problem reported in: http://lists.iptel.org/pipermail/serusers/2005-May/019681.html with much more detailed description of error, database contents and config samples. Patch is trivial, and looks more like a fix to copy'n'paste error: in mysql/val.c function str2val states: if (!_s) { memset(_v, 0, sizeof(db_val_t)); VAL_TYPE(_v) = _t; VAL_NULL(_v) = 1; return 0; } VAL_NULL(_v) = 0; and the last line mentions that 'well, that's value is not NULL'. In postgresql/db_val.c, line 182, function str2valp, the same statement is the: if (!_s) { DLOG("str2valp", "got a null value"); VAL_TYPE(_v) = _t; VAL_NULL(_v) = 1; return 0; } without explicit notification that this is not-NULL value. More than, nowhere else in this function VAL_NULL(_v) not set to 0. So, if a value _v.val contained anyting but 0 at the function start, resulting value will be threated as NULL despite the fact, that _s is NOT NULL. Patch is obvious, just add VAL_NULL(_v)=0; after cited block (line 188) and everyting will be ok. At least for me it's ok for some hours :)

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[Serusers] SER Accounting.
by Robert Zorop 26 Jun '07

26 Jun '07

Hi, all. I know this is a little bit out off Topic. I'm trying to install CDRTool for CDR normalization and billing with SER. I get the things allmost working (freeradius + MySQL + SER) But i can't get the CDRs normalized with price. Can anybody please help me or post a CDRTool global.inc working file? . Thanks a lot in advance any help will be highly apreciated!

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Re: Fw: [Users] TM : retransmission timers
by Rao Ramaratnamma 18 Mar '07

18 Mar '07

Hi Weiter, Yeah, I have been trying to limit myself to technical observations too, but the governance aspect is somewhat interesting too as a hint for future development, even though I guess even this is much more confusing than the technical ones. I have investigated, both projects have their firms with them that pursue their commercial interests which creates a risk of possibly departing from the public interest, like with redhat. From this angle they look quite similar. But if any worries me just a little bit more than openser. Appearance at commercial shows on the "open" side versus technical event on the "net" side if I take your BSD parallel, marketing "open" webpage accusing "net" version bad, hiding root commerical sponsors on the "open" webpage, this could be signs for a redhat-like doubleedged sword. Hopefully I am oversensing because I mean it is natural that everybody has SOME interest, but indisputably folks on both sides have done good work, but same indisputably more TRANSPARENCY would be helpful for both projects so that users can be less investigative. But I agree the technical comparison you suggest will be very useful if not most useful. This is what I am eventually upto. Anything folks have to tell in this topic is most welcome like the retransmission timers in subject or user loading. rr disconcerted by the fact that the more I know the more I am confused and determined to get over the learning curve quickly. also excuse the abuse I crossposted again but I think cross interrogation is a bit painful but the more effective :-) ----- Original Message ---- From: Weiter Leiter <bp4mls(a)googlemail.com> To: Kim Il <kim_il_s(a)yahoo.com> Cc: users(a)openser.org Sent: Thursday, November 9, 2006 1:42:29 PM Subject: Re: Fw: [Users] TM : retransmission timers Common user barely has time to meet his boss requirements, rather than playing around with different scenarios, platforms, environments. I only read one email where Daniel stated that OpenSER now performs a whole much better while loading users from database. SER guys put no figure out yet, neither bare numbers nor comparisons. I'm just really curious to see how both servers perform, that's all. Even though I must maintain my SER, I kinda like OpenSER's faster releases and developers' responsiveness (that I shamelessly exploit for the common code left there :-), which is pretty much nonexistent with iptel (at least this is the general belief here at OpenSER). But about this I'll probably have to fight on SER's mailing list. I still wish that one day I won't have to compare features; heck, NetSER and FreeSER are still available ;-). WL. PS. Maybe regretfully, I haven't seen any iptel booth at von this year, while OpenSER guys put up a nice show. My congrats. On 11/9/06, Kim Il <kim_il_s(a)yahoo.com> wrote: I can see what you are hinting at, but I guess that the users are the unbiased party that should do the judgment and not the parties who have something to gain. cheers Weiter Leiter <bp4mls(a)googlemail.com> wrote: This features comparisons are not to last for too long, some performance comparisons would also be nice. After all, there are plenty of UA-level stacks out there. At least now that both projects get to have stable releases after forking and some core functionality remained shared. I wonder what "unbiased" organization will take up the challenge. :-) On 11/8/06, Kim Il < kim_il_s(a)yahoo.com > wrote:Mike, this is a really good start and we should collect these things so as to help the community to take the right choice. I would also suggest that what ever ground breaking issues we list we stay at the functional level (I do not think anyone is helped by using a description containing "allowing carrier grade platforms" and similar marketing phrases). cheers {truncated because too large} Sponsored Link Talk more and pay less. Vonage can save you up to $300 a year on your phone bill. Sign up now. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users(a)openser.org http://openser.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users

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[Users] bug in radiusclient ng for 64b
by Stuart Clark 27 Feb '07

27 Feb '07

Hello, I have a 64bit machine running openser 1.1.0, and wish to log radius accounting details to radius using the acc module and radiusclient-ng. I am facing issues talking to a freeradius server, as described at: https://developer.berlios.de/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=7442&group_id=1208 Basically, the server reports: Error: Received Accounting-Request packet from w.x.y.z with invalid signature! (Shared secret is incorrect.) I have updated to the cvs version of radiusclient-ng, but the problem still exists. It would appear that the md5 routine is not compatible with the md5 routine used by the freeradius software. Just wondering is anyone else has worked their way around this problem. Cheers, Stuart > X-Archived: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.voip.openser.user/4415 > From: Daniel-Constantin Mierla <daniel@...> > Subject: FYI: bug in radiusclient ng for 64b > Newsgroups: gmane.comp.voip.openser.user, gmane.comp.voip.openser.devel > Date: 2006-05-16 01:44:16 GMT (13 weeks, 3 days and 58 minutes ago) > > On 05/16/06 02:48, Maxim Sobolev wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Reportedly there is an problem in radiusclient library with md5 hash >> calculation on 64bit platforms (amd64, sparc64, etc), which results in >> server rejecting requests even with proper secret configured on >> client. I have applied a fix, but don't have access to any 64bit >> hardware, therefore can't verify. >> >> Therefore, if anybody is having problems with radiusclient on 64bit >> arch he is more than welcome to try update to the latest version from >> cvs and let me know if it helps or not. Instructions on checking out >> sources from berlios cvs are here: >> https://developer.berlios.de/cvs/?group_id=1208. >> >> Thanks! >> >> -Maxim >

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[Users] OpenSER administrator issue
by Pat wang 27 Feb '07

27 Feb '07

Hi, Just managed to install the new openser administrator and everything just works. Thanks to Mike for this nice application. However I can't add user with openserctl anymore. The following error appears: ERROR 1054 (42S22) at line 1: Unknown column 'phplib_id' in 'field list' ERROR: introducing the new user '5702' to the database failed On the other hand, adding new users from administrator GUI does not have this problem. This happened right after installation of aministrator so I think it is related to the administrator mysql table changes. Any suggestions please? Thanks, Patrick

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[Users] imc
by henri keski-sikkila 14 Feb '07

14 Feb '07

Hello, When I invite new member to instance message conference I get the message that doesn't contain header: Content-Type: text/plain This couses me little bit problems...Should this header include to the reply? MESSAGE sip:xx SIP/2.0. Via: SIP/2.0/UDP xx;branch=z9hG4bK74fb.067ba117.0. To: sip:xx. From:sip:x;tag=0c3c711902a8bbb20a1e767e10f39a78-96ab. CSeq: 10 MESSAGE. Call-ID: 7bdbafcb-32586@x. Content-Length: 38. User-Agent: OpenSer (1.2.0-dev6-notls (i386/linux)). . x@x joined room.. left Best Regards, Henri Keski-Sikkila

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[Users] get_hdr_field: bad to header...
by Lars Sundqvist 14 Jan '07

14 Jan '07

Hello, We have a few hundred users registered to a openser we are running and everything works fine, however i get som error messages in the logs I would like to get rid of... //sbin/openser[28867]: ERROR: get_hdr_field: bad to header /sbin/openser[28867]: ERROR: bad header field /sbin/openser[28867]: ERROR: get_hdr_field: bad to header /sbin/openser[28867]: ERROR: bad header field /sbin/openser[28867]: ERROR:parse_from_header: bad from header /sbin/openser[28867]: xl_get_from: ERROR cannot parse FROM header /sbin/openser[28867]: ERROR: get_hdr_field: bad to header /sbin/openser[28867]: ERROR: bad header field /sbin/openser[28867]: xl_get_to: ERROR cannot parse TO header /sbin/openser[28867]: [REGISTER] from [<null>] to [<null>] /sbin/openser[28867]: ERROR: get_hdr_field: bad to header /sbin/openser[28867]: ERROR: bad header field /sbin/openser[28867]: ERROR:maxfwd:is_maxfwd_present : parsing MAX_FORWARD header failed! /sbin/openser[28867]: ERROR:parse_from_header: bad from header /sbin/openser[28867]: insert_RR(): From parsing failed /sbin/openser[28867]: record_route(): Error while inserting Record-Route line /sbin/openser[28867]: ERROR: get_hdr_field: bad to header /sbin/openser[28867]: ERROR: bad header field /sbin/openser[28867]: find_first_route: Error while parsing headers /sbin/openser[28867]: analyzing REGISTER request /sbin/openser[28867]: ERROR: get_hdr_field: bad to header /sbin/openser[28867]: ERROR: bad header field /sbin/openser[28867]: find_credentials(): Error while parsing headers /sbin/openser[28867]: pre_auth(): Error while looking for credentials /sbin/openser[28867]: ERROR: get_hdr_field: bad to header /sbin/openser[28867]: ERROR: bad header field /sbin/openser[28867]: ERROR: get_hdr_field: bad to header /sbin/openser[28867]: ERROR: bad header field /sbin/openser[28867]: ERROR: build_res_buf_from_sip_req: alas, parse_headers failed /sbin/openser[28867]: pre_auth(): Error while sending 400 reply / Anyone has a clue what I can do to debug this to find out where the request are coming from or what can be done to stop the invalid(?) requests from being processed and clutter my logs? Thanks Lars Sundqvist

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[Serusers] SER server as a client
by jk 27 Dec '06

27 Dec '06

Hello List, I am working on an assignment to develop a load balancing asterisk cluster. I started with google and found out that SER+ASTERISK is the best way to do it. Here is what I am trying to do. I have a sip account / DID (18xx xxx xxxx ) from an abc company. Now the company is gateway for between my asterisk server and PSTN network. My Asterisk server registers with abc company's gateway to receive and make calls. How can I do load balancing in this case. I understand that my SER server should register with the gateway, the gateway should forward call to SER server and then the server should forward call to one of the asterisk servers. Is it possible have the SER server register with another SER or Asterisk server and act like a client to receive and make calls? Can some one please point me to some documentation or case study? Thank you, -JK

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[Serusers] Re: How to change Caller ID in FROM field ?
by lawrence k.y. lin 21 Dec '06

21 Dec '06

Hi all, Appreciate if someone can give me a suggestion or even an answer. Since the call from SIP device to PSTN phone did not have Caller ID and our Telco carriers request for the Caller ID, we have to set a number before the calls are routed to PSTN gateway. I did it in Asterisk before with the function calls SetCallerID(CLID) or Set(CALLERID(number)=CLID) (depends on the Asterisk version) and these function calls worked. But because of the scalabliity issue, I changed to SER and would like to do the similar thing as in Asterisk. I read the SER document and awared SIP_HF_FROM has the data for the entired FROM field. Is there any other variables for Caller ID only ? I searched the mailing list for SER and did not find any related topic (only found one with title: caller-id with raius using sip-rpid, but it is irrelevant). Thanks in advance. Larry _________________________________________________________________ Try the next generation of search with Windows Live Search today! http://imagine-windowslive.com/minisites/searchlaunch/?locale=en-us&source=…

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