Re: [Ekiga-list] mem leak and undesired OPTIONS and PUBLISH calls

[Eugen Dedu <Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr>]

On 30/01/13 22:39, James Cloos wrote:
> > > > > > "ED" == Eugen Dedu<Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr>  writes:
>
> > > It also sends SIP OPTIONS calls to three of the registrars which I
> > > configured, using my posix username at each host,
>
> ED>  I think this was fixed by
> ED>  http://opalvoip.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/opalvoip?view=revision&revision=28849. Where
> ED>  more precisely is your posix username put in OPTIONS?
>
> And example from wireshark's summary buffer:
>
> SIP	593	Request: OPTIONS sip:cloos [ELIDED_SIP_PROVIDER_IP]
>
> The string 'cloos' does not exist in the config for that provider.
> I suppose it might get it from my ekiga.net account name rather than
> from getuid(2) and getpwnam(3), but that is the only place it exists
> in my ekiga config.

With current code it is like this:
OPTIONS sip:eugen dedu 86 64 162 35 SIP/2.0
However, in From field there is my posix name, I suppose this is normal, 
do you know if this is true?

> ED>  The reason of those OPTIONS is to keep NAT alive, so they should be
> ED>  sent no matter if it gets error or not.
>
> Every second, though, is too often.  And it should use the configured
> user or auth user name for each remote proxy.  The time between should
> be configurable.  I'd prefer 45 seconds or so.  (Anything under 60
> should work for udp nat here.)

It is every 10 seconds by default.  It can be configured with 
gconf-editor, protocols/sip/binding_timeout.

Opal sets is by default to 1 minute, I do not know if it is better to 
use their default...

> > > I didn't see any way of specifying that a given proxy does not do
> > > presence.  Did I miss one?
>
> ED>  No, I think there is no such option.  Does this hurt you?  There are
> ED>  only a few packets dealing with presence.
>
> I'd hate to get banned by sending crap packets to a pstn gateway service.

Si this is about contacts you manually added, and not the ekiga.net 
contacts automatically added, is that right?

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Eugen