[asterisk-dev] [PATCH] Silently drop non-conforming cirpack keep-alive packets

[Mike Fedyk]

Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:
> On Wednesday 31 May 2006 11:16, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
>   
>> No, this is completely invalid behavior on their part. We cannot make
>> code changes to check for this stuff when it is completely outside the
>> specs.
>>     
>
> I think that that is a poor stance on interoperability.  Every vendor I can 
> think of (Cisco and Lucent, ok I haven't thought too hard) has options for 
> workarounds.
>
> This was discussed on #asterisk-dev earlier this week.  Something like 
> "stupidvendorinterop=0x00000501", with each bit defining one stupid or odd 
> workaround needed for some vendor.
>
> Obviously not all options would be valid together, but having the ability to 
> add workarounds for vendors (even unsupported) can only help.
+1

But, please don't make us add this put bit masks in a conf file, use 
keywords in interop.conf or similar.