TCP is definitely the way to go nowadays. We use TCP on Grandstreams all the time, especially on their ATAs. Speaking of which, switching from UDP to TCP will reduce your customers' support calls dramatically. I don't know the current status over there, but 2 years ago RingCentral moved to TCP as well: https://netstorage.ringcentral.com/documents/sip.pdf Aviv On Wed, Aug 8, 2018, at 12:21 PM, Carlos Alvarez wrote:
It has, but it wasn't that long ago that people were still having challenges. Our preferred phone vendor, Grandstream, still generally advises against it.> So...who else on the list uses TCP and has any comments about it?
On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 11:12 AM Alex Balashov <abalashov at evaristesys.com> wrote:>> That has changed greatly since 2005.
On August 8, 2018 2:07:50 PM EDT, Carlos Alvarez <caalvarez at gmail.com> wrote:>> >That's a change I've never investigated. Or more precisely,
haven't>> >investigated since the days when the advice for doing it was "good>> >luck!!"
On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 11:00 AM Alex Balashov <abalashov at evaristesys.com> wrote:
I would have to agree with Calvin. Just use TCP.
On August 8, 2018 1:58:47 PM EDT, Calvin Ellison <calvin.ellison at voxox.com> wrote:
Using TCP or TLS would avoid open NAT issue, and can cure some naughty SIP ALG issues as well, assuming you want to tolerate the overhead.>> >> > For UDP, we've used both Digest and Source request validation with>> >> >Polycom devices. Source validation is probably the easiest route, assuming>> >the UA doesn't need to receive calls from anyone but its proxy or registrar. Digest (nonce challenge) is better if you want to accept calls from>> >> >anyone who knows your password, but we had an issue with a softswitch that>> >> >would properly handle auth channel to INVITE but choked when a BYE was>> >> >challenged.
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On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 10:43 AM, Carlos Alvarez <caalvarez at gmail.com> wrote:
Do most of you have the phones authenticate incoming calls? We>> >> >haven't been, but occasionally find a router that has unfiltered full cone>> >> >NAT (Cisco) or that puts one phone on 5060 with no filtering by IP.>> >The result is that the phone will start ringing at random as script kiddies>> >hit the IP and port 5060 trying to find servers to exploit. I don't see a>> >> >downside to changing to auth, but not having done it outside of a few tests of>> >a small number of phones, I figured I would ask.
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