Ah, I see.  Yes, I embrace the pragmatism of such a design decision, though I 
do think that a little more emphasis could be put on the fact that rollover is 
not based on standard T1 values.

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On May 23, 2012, at 5:21 PM, "Kevin P. Fleming" <kpflem...@digium.com> wrote:

> On 05/23/2012 07:09 AM, Alex Balashov wrote:
>> You mean Asterisk uses a Timer T1 value of 250 by default? Or just for 
>> OPTIONS requests?
> 
> Neither. If 'qualify' is enabled for a peer, the T1 timer for that peer is 
> reduced to the average of its response time to the OPTIONS pings that 
> 'qualify' generates (with a default minimum of 100ms). This behavior can be 
> overridden by changing the minimum T1 timer value as I posted previously.
> 
> While this behavior is technically not RFC3261 compliant (and I've had 
> discussions about it with at least one of the RFC's authors), it's quite 
> useful in making decisions about whether a peer has become unavailable more 
> quickly than would normally be possible. For a local peer that responds to 
> OPTIONS requests in 100ms or less, if that peer stops responding, Asterisk 
> will be able to make that determination in approximately 6 seconds, instead 
> of the 32 seconds that would normally be required.
> 
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