[asterisk-users] INVITE retransmission by 1.8... (Steve Murphy)

[Freddi Hansen]

> I have a site that moved to the latest 1.8 revision, and began to
> have problems with phones in "far away places" (South America,
> and the MidEast).
>
> What I see is that when a Dial() is issued, the sip channel driver
> sends out an INVITE to the phone.  Very soon thereafter,  Asterisk
> retransmits the INVITE. The phone sends back a 100 Trying, and
> then, usually, a 400 response. I may be misinterpreting what I see,
> but I *think* that the response from the phone is delayed just enough
> to invoke the retransmission. The phone responds to the second invite
> with a 400 code, which Asterisk interprets as an error, and the call 
> immediately
> goes into hangup.
>
> Has anyone else seen this? It doesn't happen all the time, and only 
> with certain
> phones. It comes and goes, but when it comes, phones become 
> unreachable. It
> seems to be in this state the majority of the time for certain phones. 
> While most
> phones seem far away, some are in Florida.
>
> We replaced the 1.8 version of Asterisk with a 1.6.2 version, and the 
> issue has
> gone away.  I know, I know, I could give more detail, fill out a bug 
> report, but
> this is the early stages. I may be misinterpreting what I'm seeing.
>
>  Anyone else seen this sort of thing? Any words of wisdom?

hi,
one of our gateways is used for SIP over satelite links and we se the 
same thing on default installation.
The fix is to change chan_sip.c
#define DEFAULT_RETRANS  to a higher value, we use 3000.

The retransmit timer at the far end (pap2t) is increased to 3 times its 
standard values.

It probably breaks some sip specs but its needed to keep it working when 
roundtrip gets to big.

Freddi