[Devel] Fwd: e2e ACK matching problem

[JF]

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From: JF <jfkavaka at gmail.com>
Date: Sep 29, 2006 7:04 PM
Subject: e2e ACK matching problem
To: users at openser.org, serusers at iptel.org


Hi all,

I'm facing a cenario where an INVITE transaction goes through one
(Open)SER more than one time, and the ACK to a 480 Temporarily
Unavailable is wrongly being matched as an e2e ACK.

I dug through tm code and found this comment in t_lookup.c:

                /* here we do an exercise which will be removed from future code
                 * versions: we try to match end-2-end ACKs if they
appear at our
                 * server. This allows some applications bound to TM
via callbacks
                 * to correlate the e2e ACKs with transaction context, e.g., for
                 * purpose of accounting. We think it is a bad place here, among
                 * other things because it is not reliable. If a
transaction loops
                 * via SER the ACK can't be matched to proper INVITE transaction
                 * (it is a separate transactino with its own branch ID) and it
                 * matches all transaction instances in the loop dialog-wise.
                 * Eventually, regardless to which transaction in the loop the
                 * ACK belongs, only the first one will match.
                 */

Does anyone have a solution to this problem?

Thanks,

JF