On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 11:33 +0530, Suganthi Chinnappan - TLS, Chennai
wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have some doubts related to SIP multicasting.
> 
> 1. Is it possible to run multiple registrars with different domain names
> (say D1 & D2) in a network?
> 
> 
> 2. Assuming (1) is possible and an UA that belongs to D1 sends multicast
> REGISTER request to login. What will be the response of D2 on receiving
> multicast REGISTER? I think D2 should not reply because, if the response
> from D2 reaches first at UA, login will be failed since UA will take the
> first response according to RFC 3261 Section 17.1.3
> 
> 
> "If a request is sent via multicast, it is possible that it will generate
> multiple responses from different servers.  These responses will all have
> the same branch parameter in the topmost Via, but vary in the To tag.  The
> first response received, based on the   rules above, will be used, and
> others will be viewed as retransmissions. That is not an error; multicast
> SIP provides only a rudimentary "single-hop-discovery-like" service that is
> limited to processing a single response."
> 
> 
> Can anyone clarify this please?

I think a good summary would be 
  'use of multicast for SIP REGISTER is a bad idea'.

-- 
Scott Lawrence  tel:+1-781-938-5306;ext=162 or sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  sipXpbx project coordinator - SIPfoundry    http://www.sipfoundry.org/sipX
  Chief Architect             - Pingtel Corp. http://www.pingtel.com/


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