[Freeswitch-users] failover based on initial INVITE timeout

[Mathieu Rene]

It does use SIP OPTIONS.

Mathieu Rene
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On 18-Aug-09, at 2:40 PM, Hristo Trendev wrote:

> I've seen this parameter when I started testing, but the name suggest
> that it will do icmp ping to detect failed gateways (haven't really
> tried it though). I need to detect sip service failure as well - the
> case where the destination server is up (ping replies are received),
> but the sip process is down and there is no response to sip requests.
>
> If the ping parameter uses sip-based ping (like OPTIONS ping) this may
> be a solution for me as well.
>
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Brian West<brian at freeswitch.org>  
> wrote:
>> setup gateways and turn on the ping option.
>> /b
>>
>> On Aug 18, 2009, at 1:24 PM, Hristo Trendev wrote:
>>
>>> TCP is not really an option for me. I have tried using different  
>>> sofia
>>> profile for that and set:
>>>
>>> <param name="timer-T1X64" value="1000" />
>>>
>>> This works the way I want and INVITEs to dead gateways are
>>> disconnected with [RECOVERY_ON_TIMER_EXPIRE], but:
>>> 1. It affects all calls sent via this "custom timer" profile
>>> 2. I need to use one more SIP port to bind to (I need keep the
>>> "default timers" profile as well)
>>> 3. The timer is used by transactions other than the initial invite
>>> message and that may cause unexpected problems.
>>>
>>> Obviously originate_timeout doesn't work the way it's supposed to
>>> (according to the wiki) so I will report it as bug.
>>>
>>> The profile trick above actually solves my problem and may happen to
>>> be a better solution after all, but I will need to test it for some
>>> time before I know.
>>
>>
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