Hello,
we have the following setup in our "Unified Messaging lab":
SUAs <-> LAN <-> SER <-> Softswitch <-> PSTN
The SER is provisioned as a SIP Server (essentially a SUA) from the Softswich point of view.
We have provisioned a number block of 20 numbers (from a 30-channel ISDN PRI) for direct inward dialling (DID) to the SER. E.g. 12345620-12345639 are routed to the SER.
On the SER we have a number of users <user>@dai-labor.de, where the first 20 users have an alias of 123456[23][0-9] Each user also has his number added to his permanent contacts to enable (on the cheap) a "call by PSTN if not online" poliy.
The aim obviously being to have a 1-1 mapping between URI and allocated telephone number (we are still in the proof-of-concept phase and will move to DNS and ENUM based architecture at a later stage).
Scenario 1: OK PSTN user Up calls 12345621 - which is mapped to harry@dai-labor.de. If harry@dai-labor.de is registered, his SIP UA rings and the call is established.
Scenario 2: problem harry@dai-labor.de wants to use his UA to place a call through the Softswitch. The Softswitch "authenticates" (if you can call this authentication ;-( by looking at the Contact header and comparing it to its database of numbers assigned to provisioned SIP Servers. I therefore need to be able to specify a rewrite of the Contact header to replace harry@<Contact IP:port> with 12345621@<Contact IP:port> when the callee is of the form <number>@<whatever>
I am aware that this would be strictly speaking not proxy but rather B2BUA behaviour, but would still be interested to know whether anyone has a solution to this problem or whether we need to hack one ourselves.
Many thanks in advance,
Harry
Dr. Harry Behrens Projektleitung BIB3R DAI Labor - Technische Universität Berlin Sekretariat GOR 1-1, Franklinstrasse 28/29, 10587 Berlin
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Email: harry.behrens@dai-labor.de
On Oct 23, 2003 at 17:27, Harry Behrens Harry.Behrens@dai-labor.de wrote:
Hello,
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The Softswitch "authenticates" (if you can call this authentication ;-( by looking at the Contact header and comparing it to its database of numbers assigned to provisioned SIP Servers. I therefore need to be able to specify a rewrite of the Contact header to replace harry@<Contact IP:port> with 12345621@<Contact IP:port> when the callee is of the form <number>@<whatever>
I am aware that this would be strictly speaking not proxy but rather B2BUA behaviour, but would still be interested to know whether anyone has a solution to this problem or whether we need to hack one ourselves.
You can try a brute-force approach, create a regular expression that will match Contact: harry@<Contact IP:port> and replace it with 12345621@<Contact IP:port>. You could use textops subst function for that. E.g.: subst('/^(Contact: *)harry(@.*)/\112345621\2/i');
However you will need to have one subst for each user hard-wired in your ser conf.
Andrei
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Harry Behrens