[Serusers] question regarding sip protocol

[Andres]

> I tried to do some research on this but could not find anything 
> useful.    Does this response of a 404 matter?    How can you fix 
> this?   I have read that the client does this as an application level 
> ping to make sure the proxy is up.
>
Its more likely that your phone is doing this 'ping' to keep a NAT 
binding alive.  If your phone is not behind NAT then you can disable 
this 'ping'.  The 404 response does not matter, it is normal and you can 
even fix the ser.cfg to return a better looking response.  For example 
the ser.cfg code we use to handle this is:
------------------------------------------------------------
###############################################
### Answer Options/Notify Messages         ####
###############################################
                      if (method == "NOTIFY"){
                         if (search("keep-alive")) {
                            sl_send_reply("200", "OK");
                            break;
                         };
                      };
-----------------------------------------------------------
That way we get a '200 OK' instead of a '404'.  You can change NOTIFY to 
OPTIONS in the first line if that is your case.

Andres
http://www.neuroredes.com

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> If I have 100s of people registering that is a lot of extra traffic.   
> Is there a way to stop this options query or have the proxy respond 
> properly?
>
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>
> Thanks
>
>  
>
> *Michael *
>
> Network Services Engineer
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