[sr-dev] Possible enhancement for 4.1.0: STUN as a module

[Peter Dunkley]

Hi,

Unless anyone objects I plan to start looking at putting STUN into its 
own module over the Easter holiday weekend.

Regards,

Peter

On 27/03/13 19:01, Daniel-Constantin Mierla wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 3/27/13 6:06 PM, Peter Dunkley wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> To use Kamailio as an outbound edge proxy you have to compile in STUN 
>> support (which in turn makes the Kamailio core dependent on 
>> OpenSSL).  It'd be good if the STUN code could be moved into a module 
>> (similar to TLS) for the next major release.
>>
>> This might also be a good route to take for some other things 
>> optionally compiled into core with "exotic" dependencies like SCTP.
> I agree, at least stun part should be easy to pull and make a module, 
> following same model as for http/msrp/etc... I was looking also at 
> other core parts, like dnssec (which is still work in progress as I 
> could get).
>
> For sctp I am not sure how easy/natural it will be, being a completely 
> different transport layer. For tls was different being practically on 
> top of tcp from the core. But if the external libs calls can be moved 
> as part of the module and register some callbacks to be executed from 
> the core, then should be fine. I haven't checked the code right now, 
> but I guess the functions to create sctp sockets are part of libc, 
> just some helper functions are part of the libsctp.
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel
>