[Serdev] RFC 3261 Section 18.1.1
Evan Borgström
evan.borgstrom at ca.mci.com
Thu Jun 23 15:58:06 UTC 2005
Hey guys,
Does SER conform to Section 18.1.1 of RFC 3261 which states:
If a request is within 200 bytes of the path MTU, or if it is larger
than 1300 bytes and the path MTU is unknown, the request MUST be sent
using an RFC 2914 [43] congestion controlled transport protocol, such
as TCP. If this causes a change in the transport protocol from the
one indicated in the top Via, the value in the top Via MUST be
changed. This prevents fragmentation of messages over UDP and
provides congestion control for larger messages. However,
implementations MUST be able to handle messages up to the maximum
datagram packet size. For UDP, this size is 65,535 bytes, including
IP and UDP headers.
We have been noticing that some clients are putting a bunch of extra
headers in (for things like byte counters ala the Cisco IP phones) and
we've been seeing some fragmentation from them. I've begun using
consume_credientials much more to try and size down the messages that do
not need the Auth/Proxy-Auth headers any more which seems to be helping
a bit but I'm still curious about is SER would auto-magically switch
protocols to deal with this.
-Evan
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