>>> 
>>> The first option is sub-optimal, I don't want all our routers having a
>>> drop-this-packet "firewall" line for various reasons. The second
>>> option I've started to like more and more. There's two ways to resolve
>>> this:
>>> - I just make sure I add an iptables call somewhere in the startup script, 
>>> or
>>> - I/We add an RFC6263 configuration option to Mediaproxy that does
>>> more or less the same
>>> 
>>> The iptables call would drop all 0 length UDP messages sent to the
>>> mediaproxy ports.
>>> 
>>> Am I wrong in my thinking?
>>> 
>> Once the call is up (a single RTP packet was received from each endpoint) 
>> MediaProxy will setup a conntrack rule, and the Linux kernel will do the 
>> relaying. This means that MediaProxy itself cannot inspect the RTP packets 
>> at that point, because they are not traversing user-space code anymore.
> As far as understood, what Andreas wants to do is to drop such packages from 
> iptables rule, not necessarily from media relay software.
> 

Yes, indeed. I was pointing out that option 2 (adding RFC6263 config option to 
MediaProxy) is not feasible due to its architecture, but doing it with iptables 
is perfectly fine :-)


Regards,

-- 
Saúl Ibarra Corretgé
AG Projects






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