[OpenSER-Users] [OpenSER-Devel] [RFC] - siptrace change

Bogdan-Andrei Iancu bogdan at voice-system.ro
Thu May 15 10:09:35 CEST 2008


Hi Norman,

yup, that is exactly my problem - I use it only for doing siptrace per 
user and on platform with high traffic, the stateless ACK tracing 
produces a lot of residual data in DB.

Regards,
Bogdan

Norman Brandinger wrote:
> This change would be good.  We have reduced our use of siptrace for 
> this very reason.
>
> Norm
>
> Bogdan-Andrei Iancu wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to get your opinion/comments on some siptrace issue.
>>
>> In 1.3, a new capability was added in siptrace - to trace the ACK 
>> resulted from sending stateless replies.
>>
>> The problem I discovered with this is that it cannot be controlled by 
>> selecting the messages or transactions to be be traced. Usually you 
>> use siptrace to trace only certain transactions / messages - tracing 
>> all traffic is usually not a realistic option.
>>
>> So, with the stateless ACK, the siptrace module cannot apply the 
>> selection from script and trace them all, with no filtering at all. 
>> So, if you want to trace a traffic for a single user, all ACK going 
>> through the platform will be traced.
>>
>> This reduces the usability of the module and you get a lot of garbage 
>> tracing.
>>
>> My suggestion will be to disable stateless ACK tracing until a way to 
>> control/filter it is found. I'm asking this considering the upcoming 
>> 1.3.2 release from tomorrow.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Bogdan
>>
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