<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Understood. My plan is to use UDP for all "trunking" type endpoints at TCP for desk phones as they will likely receive more NOTIFYs and in most cases being behind NAT where the longer connection timeout comes in handy. I also found a good paper on the subject:</div><div><a href="http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~kumiko/publish/IPTComm08_paper.pdf">http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~kumiko/publish/IPTComm08_paper.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div>In regard to connection timeout how does Freeswitch handle this? I noticed the new Sofia parameters and I was curious if the connection lifetime was configurable as well.</div><div><br></div><div>BR,</div><div>Spencer</div><div><br>On May 8, 2013, at 10:20 AM, "Jeff Leung" <<a href="mailto:jleung@v10networks.ca">jleung@v10networks.ca</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite"><span>Hi Jeff,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Thanks for the insight. Forgive my ignorance but if I have two Identical</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Freeswitch servers with SRV records and endpoints that properly support</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>SRVs, why do I loose the ability to failover if one host is not reachable?</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>TCP is a stateful protocol. On the other hand UDP isn't, it's stateless.</span><br><span>It's just easier to failover with UDP than with TCP if you understand the</span><br><span>difference between the two protocols. I'm not saying that it's not possible</span><br><span>to do so with TCP, but with the way how SIP works, you'd want to use UDP if</span><br><span>you want failover capabilities without the headache.</span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>Also as many of these end points are Polycoms behind NAT, I can't see any</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>reason I'd still need NDLB-force-rport on the profile?</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>Unfortunately, I don't work with Polycom phones. Brian West over here can</span><br><span>comment on that issue.</span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>Since these are application servers, handling conferences, presence, etc.,</span><br></blockquote><span>I'd</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>imagine I would hit other bottlenecks before I hit the TCP connection</span><br></blockquote><span>limit.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Yes that's true, but if you had a FreeSWITCH box that purely handled SIP</span><br><span>messages and no media, you'd probably hit that TCP Open connection limit.</span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>On May 8, 2013, at 9:51 AM, "Jeff Leung" <<a href="mailto:jleung@v10networks.ca">jleung@v10networks.ca</a>> wrote:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>-----Original Message-----</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>From: <a href="mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org">freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org</a></span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>[mailto:freeswitch- <a href="mailto:users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org">users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org</a>] On Behalf Of</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Vik Killa</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2013 9:18 AM</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>To: FreeSWITCH Users Help</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] TCP vs UDP SIP</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>That I would agree with, but the thing is you lose the capability of</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>failover in the unlikely event that a node in a FreeSWITCH cluster fail.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>In my opinion, TCP seems better than UDP as you know all the SIP</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>packets are making to their destination.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Jeff Leung <<a href="mailto:jleung@v10networks.ca">jleung@v10networks.ca</a>></span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>wrote:</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span> On a Linux system there is a limit of how many open TCP</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>connections you have.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>If I can remember correctly, I think Darren from 2600hz did discuss</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>about the limit of open TCP connections you can have on a Linux</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>system. Correct me if I'm wrong on this, but that seems to be the</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>case. And I have seen instances of that happening on a misconfigured</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Squid Proxy</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>I never heard this before...where and how it this limit defined?</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span> Unless you have a crazy amount of endpoints you have to serve, TCP</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>probably isn't really worth it in my opinion.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Assuming it's one Open TCP connection per endpoint, you'd probably</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>need more endpoints than the maximum amount of open TCP connections</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>to</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>hit that problem</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>How many endpoints?</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote 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