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I actually think that is a backwards compatibility issue in SIP. Loose-routing works correctly if sender knows whether the next-hop is loose or strict router. That is a correct assumption as long as the routing information collected automatically in record-route tells you that. If you use pre-configured Route along with an outbound proxy, you configure this strict/loose on your own and you need to get it right. Hence, when you configure loose routing for use with a strict outbound router, things will fail.

Anyway, with lr support in next ser release, it should not matter any more. We've had the same issue with kphone previouly, it works since an option has been introduce to enforce use of strict routing. see http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/working-groups/sipping/current/msg03451.htm...

-Jiri

At 11:18 AM 2/5/2003, Klaus Darilion wrote:

Hello!

I've installed ser (sip:obelix.ict.tuwien.ac.at) und want'ed to use it with linphone, so I configured linphone to use ser as outbound proxy and registrar. The registration works fine but not the INVITEs. ser answers to an INVITE from linphone with a 404 Not Found and I found out that the problem is the "Route" header in the INVITE from linphone.

Route: sip:obelix.ict.tuwien.ac.at;lr

When I remove the header from the invite and send it manually (sipsak) the ser proxy accepts the invite and forwards it. I think ser reacts wrong because if an RFC3261 proxy gets an request with a route header which points to itself it should remove the header and forward the request.

Than I tried the same with an different proxy in the route header:

Route: sip:iptel.org;lr

Now, my ser proxy (sip:obelix.ict.tuwien.ac.at) accepts the request and forwards it to iptel.org, but it rewrites the invite to: INVITE sip:iptel.org;lr SIP/2.0

Thats what an RFC2543 proxy would do, but not an RFC3261 proxy, which only is allowed to do that if the route header has no "lr" parameter or if he is responsible for the domain in the request URI. If there is an "lr" parameter the proxy must not change the request URI.

If I'm wrong please let me know.

I use ser 0.8.10 with the standard config file and linphone 0.9.1 & 0.10.0

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