[SR-Users] UDP fragmentation issues

Henning Westerholt hw at skalatan.de
Fri Jul 12 22:43:32 CEST 2019


Hello Gerry,

not sure if you already figured it out.. Have you tried to just check for the message length with the PV $ml in the relevant route, and then send over TCP if it is larger as 1400 bytes?

Cheers,

Henning 

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From: sr-users <sr-users-bounces at lists.kamailio.org> On Behalf Of Gerry | x164
Sent: Friday, June 21, 2019 12:33 PM
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Subject: [SR-Users] UDP fragmentation issues

Hi, 

I have setup Kamailio on Centos 7 as a proxy in front of Asterisk in the same datacenter, using the dispatcher module. I have noted that large INVITEs sent by Kamailio do not arrive at the Asterisk box. It seems the network is dropping fragmented UDP traffic. This does not happen however when I contact the Asterisk box directly from outside the datacenter. Then large INVITES are arriving are Asterisk. So the problem is either in Kamailio or in the datacenter.

I have analysed the problem with ngrep and tcpdump/wireshark. In normal mode (udp4_raw=no setting) Kamailio is producing UDP packets above 1500 bytes and leaves all fragmentation to the operating system. Enabling raw udp in Kamailio and lowering the MTU in the server didnt help. I even disabled offloading of UDP fragmentation to the NIC to get to the bottom of this. However nothing helps. Only forcing TCP in the dispatcher works when having large INVITES going to Asterisk.

In any case, it appears that there is no guarantee that fragmented UDP arrives at all.  As far as I am aware, the recommendation is to use TCP if messages are bigger than 1400 bytes. If so, how can I force Kamailio to send messages over 1400 bytes only in TCP mode?

Or is there some other way how to deal with this?

Thanks for any hints.

Gerry


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