[Users] OpenSER & SIP-OPTIONS

[Klaus Darilion]

martin at campus-merseburg.de wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i've installed one OpenSER-Server only for SIP-Trunking. (it is used for
> security and reliability reasons between a softswitch and some
> customer-pbx's)
> 
> one of our customer wants to use asterisk with its "monitor peer"
> feature. so the asterisk sends every second a OPTIONS SIP Message. But
> the OpenSER does only answer with "Request Timeout". So asterisk
> thinks, the SIP Proxy is offline. What can i do about it?

You have to find out why openser does not relay the OPTIONS message.
- watch syslog (put log statements into your openser.cfg)
- use ngrep to verifiy if the OPTIONS request is forwarded "ngrep -d any 
port 5060"

Maybe there is a problem with the OPTIONS request (missing Route headers 
...)

regards
klaus