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

[Ryan Wagoner]

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 12:57 PM, James Lamanna <jlamanna at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
> --

Is anybody running 1.6.2 with Linksys phones that would be willing to
help test the patch on https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=17379

Ryan