[asterisk-users] Workaround for bug in Linksys Firmware 6.1.3(a) (or greater)

James Lamanna jlamanna at gmail.com
Wed Jun 23 11:57:18 CDT 2010


On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 8:57 PM, Andres <andres at telesip.net> wrote:
>
>> completely as well.
>>
>> Below I've posted a patch that responds with a 200 OK to these
>> keep-alive requests, and I believe
>> also solves the temporary loss of registration problem, though more
>> testing in different environments
>> for those who experience this problem would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> The patch is against 1.4.32.
>>
>>
> A workaround we have used for a long time is to simply change the config
> on the Linksys phones to send an empty packet as a keep-alive.  There is
> obviously no response from asterisk but it keeps the NAT bindings alive
> and well on every router we have tested.

Hi Andres,
I have noticed that on Linksys phones that have a short REGISTER time,
the lack of
NAT keep alive responses can cause the phone to no longer be able to register.
That's why I've spent a lot of effort to hopefully make these
keep-alives supported.

>
> Andres
> http://www.neuroredes.com
>> -- James

-- James



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