[sr-dev] about rtpengine trust-address flag and "received from" key

Richard Fuchs rfuchs at sipwise.com
Tue Sep 9 14:52:45 CEST 2014


On 09/09/14 08:47, Juha Heinanen wrote:
> Richard Fuchs writes:
> 
>> I agree with your objections in that trusting the SDP address should
>> probably be the default, but I see no reason to remove functionality
>> that some people may find useful. There's at least one case where
>> trusting the SDP address can be problematic (packet forwarding loops).
>> The best way of action would probably be to create a new flag with the
>> opposite effect and then transition over to that one.
> 
> It is OK to have trust-address flag.  What I doubt is what is the point
> in sending source IP address of SIP request to rtpengine if
> trust-address is not present, because that address may have nothing to
> do with rtp media.

Same as the address in the SDP may have nothing to do with the RTP
media. It gives people an option. Nothing wrong with that.

cheers



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