Hi,

This problem occurs not only in ReInvite but in INVITE transactions also.
Its a bug in SIP and has been reported as well. In our implementation, we
didnt hamper the existing timers but created a new one whose value we set >
timerB.
For sure the dialog needs to be terminated.

cheers!!
sarvpriya
(http://sarvpriyak.blogspot.com)


On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Mia Cizmic <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> in our SIP implementation, we have encountered a problem for which we
> don't find a clear statement in RFC 3261.
> We would like to hear your opinion about this issue, if possible.
>
> Namely, we have sent a Re-Invite on an existing session and received 100
> Trying reply.
> 100 Trying reply turned off Timer B. After 100 Trying, we haven't got
> any answer on Re-Invite.
>
> Chapter 14.1 of RFC 3261 says:
> "If a UA receives a non-2xx final response to a re-INVITE, the session
> parameters MUST remain unchanged, as if no re-INVITE had been issued.
> Note that, as stated in Section 12.2.1.2, if the non-2xx final response
> is a 481 (Call/Transaction Does Not Exist), or a 408 (Request Timeout),
> or no response at all is received for the re-INVITE (that is, a timeout
> is returned by the INVITE client transaction), the UAC will terminate
> the dialog."
>
> Quoted paragraph does not say anything for provisional responses.
>
> I find our implementation aligned with the RFC (quoted paragraph and
> Figure 5) but it is also evident that we can not keep waiting for the
> final response forever.
>
> My question is which timer should control the duration of INVITE
> transaction? Can Timer B me expanded and NOT switched off if provisional
> response is received (Figure 5) or it would be better to implement a new
> timer. If you think that a new timer is a better solution, can you
> suggest it's guiding value?
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Mia
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