[Serusers] ser not sending ACK back to MGW

Colin Dalton cd at eircom.net
Tue May 31 16:19:34 CEST 2005


Folks,

Ignore the email below -- problem was fixed when I upgraded to 0.9.0.

Regards,

Colin

On Tue 31 May 05, 14:50:24 +0100, Colin Dalton wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Apologies if this has come up before, but I'm having some problems
> with SER not forwarding an ACK back to a Cisco AS5300 media gateway. This
> means that incoming calls break down because the 5300 hasn't received
> an ACK from the SIP phone. Outgoing calls are fine, because SER is 
> forwarding the 5300's ACK back to the SIP phone correctly. Would anyone
> know why this is only working in one direction?
> 
> With incoming calls, the sequence of events is:
> 
> 1. I dial the PSTN number on my SIP phone.
> 2. The SIP phone sends the INVITE to SER.
> 3. SER rewrites the host and forwards it to the Media Gateway (MGW)
> 4. The MGW brings up an ISDN channel and connects the call
> 5. When the call is answered, the MGW sends back the 200/OK to SER
> 6. SER forwards the 200/OK on to the SIP phone and I can converse on the call
> 7. The SIP phone sends the ACK back to SER, but SER doesn't send it on to
>    the MGW.
> 8. The MGW waits 19 secs before disconnecting the call because it hasn't
>    received an ACK.
> 
> In the reverse direction everything works fine, because SER sends on the
> ACK it receives from the AS5300.
> 
> My configuration is appended below. Running IOS 12.3(9) on the 5300, the
> SIP phone is a Siemens Optipoint 400. SER version is 0.8.10 on Fedora
> Core 3.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Colin
> 
> --- config ---
> 
> #
> # $Id: ser.cfg,v 1.21.4.1 2003/11/10 15:35:15 andrei Exp $
> #
> # simple quick-start config script
> #
> 
> # ----------- global configuration parameters ------------------------
> 
> #debug=3         # debug level (cmd line: -dddddddddd)
> #fork=yes
> #log_stderror=no	# (cmd line: -E)
> 
> /* Uncomment these lines to enter debugging mode 
> debug=7
> fork=no
> log_stderror=yes
> */
> 
> check_via=no	# (cmd. line: -v)
> dns=no           # (cmd. line: -r)
> rev_dns=no      # (cmd. line: -R)
> #port=5060
> #children=4
> fifo="/tmp/ser_fifo"
> 
> # ------------------ module loading ----------------------------------
> 
> # Uncomment this if you want to use SQL database
> #loadmodule "/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/mysql.so"
> 
> loadmodule "/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/sl.so"
> loadmodule "/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/tm.so"
> loadmodule "/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/rr.so"
> loadmodule "/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/maxfwd.so"
> loadmodule "/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/usrloc.so"
> loadmodule "/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/registrar.so"
> 
> # Uncomment this if you want digest authentication
> # mysql.so must be loaded !
> #loadmodule "/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/auth.so"
> #loadmodule "/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/auth_db.so"
> 
> # ----------------- setting module-specific parameters ---------------
> 
> # -- usrloc params --
> 
> modparam("usrloc", "db_mode",   0)
> 
> # Uncomment this if you want to use SQL database 
> # for persistent storage and comment the previous line
> #modparam("usrloc", "db_mode", 2)
> 
> # -- auth params --
> # Uncomment if you are using auth module
> #
> #modparam("auth_db", "calculate_ha1", yes)
> #
> # If you set "calculate_ha1" parameter to yes (which true in this config), 
> # uncomment also the following parameter)
> #
> #modparam("auth_db", "password_column", "password")
> 
> # -- rr params --
> # add value to ;lr param to make some broken UAs happy
> modparam("rr", "enable_full_lr", 1)
> 
> # -------------------------  request routing logic -------------------
> 
> # main routing logic
> 
> route{
> 
> 	# initial sanity checks -- messages with
> 	# max_forwards==0, or excessively long requests
> 	if (!mf_process_maxfwd_header("10")) {
> 		sl_send_reply("483","Too Many Hops");
> 		break;
> 	};
> 	if ( msg:len > max_len ) {
> 		sl_send_reply("513", "Message too big");
> 		break;
> 	};
> 
> 	# we record-route all messages -- to make sure that
> 	# subsequent messages will go through our proxy; that's
> 	# particularly good if upstream and downstream entities
> 	# use different transport protocol
> 	record_route();	
> 	# loose-route processing
> 	if (loose_route()) {
> 		t_relay();
> 		break;
> 	};
> 
> 	# if the request is for other domain use UsrLoc
> 	# (in case, it does not work, use the following command
> 	# with proper names and addresses in it)
> 	if (uri==myself) {
> 
> 		if (method=="REGISTER") {
> 			save("location");
> 			break;
> 		};
> 
> 		if (uri=~"^sip:9[0-9]*@*") {   # pstn escape = 9
> 		#	strip(9);
> 			rewritehostport("159.134.250.247:5060");
> 			log(1,"Forwarding to PSTN/n");
> 			forward(159.134.250.247, 5060);
> 		} else {
> 		# native SIP destinations are handled using our USRLOC DB
> 		if (!lookup("location")) {
> 			sl_send_reply("404", "Not Found");
> 			break;
> 		};
> 		forward(uri:host,uri:port);
> 	};
> 	# forward to current uri now; use stateful forwarding; that
> 	# works reliably even if we forward from TCP to UDP
> 	if (!t_relay()) {
> 		sl_reply_error();
> 	};
> 
> };
> }
> 
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