[Freeswitch-users] mod_opal - call charged before H.225 connect

Tihomir Culjaga tculjaga at gmail.com
Wed Oct 7 01:37:50 PDT 2009 

Anthony,

of course, nobody wants to start anything... we are all here to help making
FS a better product.

so, regarding the founding for mod_opal ... what is the amount you need?


Tihomir.



On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 2:58 AM, Anthony Minessale <
anthony.minessale at gmail.com> wrote:

> I didn't mean to start anything.  I'm just saying we work very long hours
> and barely get anybody asking about h.323.
> I wanted to support it and that's why we took up a collection to get
> funding for mod_opal but when only 1 donor showed any interest we were
> forced to proceed in our spare time which is very limited.
>
> The developers of opal are not part of our project and they need financial
> compensation to be motivated to work on it.  Its not even related to me its
> only fair that an outside developer who makes his living as a consultant
> would want money to integrate his work into our project.
>
> Like I said, I will do my best to point your issue to the opal devs but I
> cannot force them to work on it.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Diego Viola <diego.viola at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yeah I understand your point of view, but saying "I want a H.323 module"
>> or "I want a Ferrari" wont magically make it happen.
>>
>> We need to work on it ourselves or pay to the people that knows how to do
>> it to do it for us.
>>
>> There is no other way I think.
>>
>> Diego
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Tihomir Culjaga <tculjaga at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Diego,
>>>
>>> what i'm pointing here is the situation where you have a great product
>>> that lacks in one of most common protocol. It is true H323 is going to
>>> disappear (eventually), it is true that the community prefers SIP/IAX
>>> instead ... but the reality still remains. H323 is going to be used for
>>> quite a long time to exchange a lot of traffic while FS will be left aside.
>>> Today, when you setup an IP peering interconnection 80% of carriers will
>>> prefer H323.
>>>
>>> Of course, developing something costs "time" (and we all know what time
>>> stands for...) and as i said, i understand the financial point of view and i
>>> really understand if nobody is going to work on that, but let's face it FS
>>> doesn't have any usable module to reliably handle H323 protocol.
>>>
>>>
>>> said that, i don't intend to offend anyone... just facing the reality.
>>>
>>>
>>> regarding the h323 module, we don't have any issue fixing the existing or
>>> developing a new one... but before we go developing something it is always
>>> better check if the thing you want already exists in an usable state or
>>> not... that's what i did today.
>>>
>>>
>>> So, I'm interested in a reliable module handling H323v4... anyone else?
>>>
>>>
>>> T.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Diego Viola <diego.viola at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Instead of complaining and demanding things for free, people should
>>>> start to put their money where their mouth is.
>>>>
>>>> Diego
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Tihomir Culjaga <tculjaga at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> hi Anthony,
>>>>>
>>>>> it is somewhere here:
>>>>>
>>>>>          switch_status_t
>>>>> FSConnection::receive_message(switch_core_session_message_t *msg)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> anyhow, i will open an issue jira of course.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I understand your financial point of view, but anyhow while the entire
>>>>> world is wants sip and trying to move to sip, the reality is quite
>>>>> different. The majority of voice traffic exchanged via IP is still H323.
>>>>> This means a working SIP - H323 interworking is really needed... pity nobody
>>>>> wants/has time to work in this direction to produce a decent mod_h323.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> T.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Anthony Minessale <
>>>>> anthony.minessale at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> pcap is not as useful as FS console log on debug with:
>>>>>> sofia profile internal siptrace on
>>>>>>
>>>>>> you should be reporting issues to jira under mod_opal not to the
>>>>>> mailing list.
>>>>>> http://jira.freeswitch.org
>>>>>>
>>>>>> FYI
>>>>>> There is little financial support from the community for h323 which
>>>>>> prevents the mod_opal from getting much attention.
>>>>>> We actually have to contract the author of opal to help with these
>>>>>> issues including the original writing of the module that he did with very
>>>>>> little funding and nobody ever wants to pay him to improve it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That does not mean your issue will not be addressed but there is no
>>>>>> promise how fast it will be.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Tihomir Culjaga <tculjaga at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> hello guys,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> i was playing with mod_opal to see if i can make it working ... well
>>>>>>> it seems SIP-H323 interworking is not tuned at all.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have a call from a registered sip user (1001) to PSTN via mod_opal
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> <include>
>>>>>>>   <extension name="EMERGENCY">
>>>>>>>     <condition field="destination_number"
>>>>>>> expression="^0(112|9[23456])$">
>>>>>>>       <action application="set"
>>>>>>> data="effective_caller_id_number=1001282122"/>
>>>>>>>       <action application="set" data="NCX_IP=10.4.4.254"/>
>>>>>>>       <action application="set" data="call_timeout=30"/>
>>>>>>>       <action application="set" data="hangup_after_bridge=true"/>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>       <action application="bridge" data="opal/h323:0$1@${NCX_IP}"/>
>>>>>>>     </condition>
>>>>>>>   </extension>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>   <extension name="SPECIAL_SERVICES">
>>>>>>>     <condition field="destination_number"
>>>>>>> expression="^0(9[01789]\d{3,4})$">
>>>>>>>       <action application="set"
>>>>>>> data="effective_caller_id_number=1001282122"/>
>>>>>>>       <action application="set" data="NCX_IP=10.4.4.254"/>
>>>>>>>       <action application="set" data="call_timeout=30"/>
>>>>>>>       <action application="set" data="hangup_after_bridge=true"/>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>       <action application="bridge" data="opal/h323:0$1@${NCX_IP}"/>
>>>>>>>     </condition>
>>>>>>>   </extension>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>   <extension name="ENYTHING_ELSE">
>>>>>>>     <condition field="destination_number"
>>>>>>> expression="^0([2-8]\d{6,7}|0[1-9]\d{7,8}|00[1-9]\d{8,16})$">
>>>>>>>       <action application="set"
>>>>>>> data="effective_caller_id_number=1001282122"/>
>>>>>>>       <action application="set" data="NCX_IP=10.4.4.254"/>
>>>>>>>       <action application="set" data="call_timeout=30"/>
>>>>>>>       <action application="set" data="hangup_after_bridge=true"/>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>       <action application="bridge" data="opal/h323:0$1@${NCX_IP}"/>
>>>>>>>     </condition>
>>>>>>>   </extension>
>>>>>>> </include>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> One of the many issues i sow is that FS connects the call on SIP leg
>>>>>>> before it actually receives H.225 connect from H323 leg... as it is
>>>>>>> configured to send 200 OK on the 1st H.225 message containing a FastStart
>>>>>>> element/OLC.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Attached is the tcpdump i took on FS machine... just use this filter:
>>>>>>> "h225 or h245 or q931 or sip"
>>>>>>> Also, you can check the attac CDR,,,, this is an unanswered call i
>>>>>>> placed to PSTN and FS billed it 23 seconds.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Can anyone tell where i can do correct SIP - H323 message mappings to
>>>>>>> avoid this?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> T.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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