[sr-dev] Does iptrtpproxy still work? Should there be consideration into marking it obsolete in Kamailio 4.1.0

[Alex Balashov]

Ah yes, that's true enough. 

Peter Dunkley <peter.dunkley at crocodilertc.net> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>mediaproxy is from AG Projects.  mediaproxy-ng is from SIPWise.
>
>mediaproxy-ng is controlled by the Kamailio rtpproxy-ng modules
>(confusing
>naming I know).
>
>As well as supporting in-kernel forwarding mediaproxy-ng also supports
>SAVPF <-> AVPF, SAVPF <-> SAVP, SAVPF <-> AVP, and so on conversions
>(useful for WebRTC interoperation).
>
>Regards,
>
>Peter
>
>
>On 21 October 2013 10:16, Alex Balashov <abalashov at evaristesys.com>
>wrote:
>
>> The only reason I can think of why it might be a worth trying to
>salvage
>> iptrtpproxy is political in nature. Mediaproxy is put out by AG
>Projects,
>> which, as far as I can tell, is firmly with The Other Project in
>terms of
>> its personal sympathies and affinities (perhaps I'm wrong?). That has
>> always made future compatibility with Kamailio a concern for me.
>>
>> Yes, I know it's all open source and there isn't necessarily a good
>reason
>> why we can't hack in new changes to the control protocol, but I've
>always
>> thought it worth keeping in mind. It's also a key reason why I
>generally
>> recommend rtpproxy instead to customers.
>>
>>
>> Peter Dunkley <peter.dunkley at crocodilertc.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I was looking through the module dependencies for this and noticed
>that
>>> it requires the netfilter-rtpproxy which has not had a new release
>in over
>>> two years.  Further, there is a recent bug report (
>>> http://www.2p.cz/en/node/1419 ) which indicates that
>netfilter-rtpproxy
>>> won't even compile with Linux kernels 2.6.18 and above.
>>>
>>> In-kernel forwarding is a feature of mediaproxy-ng (through the
>>> rtpproxy-ng module), so it looks like iptrtpproxy doesn't provide
>any
>>> features that aren't available elsewhere.
>>>
>>> Should there be some consideration about declaring this module
>obsolete
>>> in Kamailio 4.1.0?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Peter
>>>
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>>> Crocodile RCS Ltd
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