Yes, OPTIONS could do the work. BTW, why don't you send OPTIONS to the SIP Proxy from your UA, instead of from your outbound proxy? The network fault may occurs between your UA and outbound proxy.
Thanks, Leo > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Siddhardha > Garige > Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 12:25 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Sip-implementors] How do I know if proxy is alive? > > > Hello all, > > I got a UA with both FXO and FXS ports. All the FXS ports > register to a sip proxy through a outbound proxy. In case of > link failure in between outbound proxy and SIP Proxy, > outbound proxy locally registers all FXS lines locally. Calls > are routed locally in between lines registered to this > outbound proxy and rest of the calls will be dialed out > through FXO lines. > > My requirement is I need to know if my outbound proxy has > connectivity to SIP Proxy. > I know this sound stupid but to prove my concept currently > i send arpings (pings are blocked) to SIP Proxy from outbound > proxy and check for response. If i get response i continue to > stay in regular mode. In case of failure i shift to FXO fail > over mode. > > I looked on the web for possible ways of doing this but I > did not had much luck. > One way i am thinking is by using OPTIONS. Can a outbound > proxy send OPTIONS to SIP Proxy to see if its alive? Or is > there any other better way of doing this? > > Any help is greatly appreciated. > > -Sid > > > > ******************************************************* > Siddhardha N. Garige > Tampa, FL. > Ph: (813)-298-4236. > > www.pbase.com/garige > > ******************************************************* > > --------------------------------- > New Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Call regular phones from > your PC and save big. > _______________________________________________ > Sip-implementors mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/sip-implementors > _______________________________________________ Sip-implementors mailing list [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/sip-implementors
