Hello,
Long time Kam/Ser user, first time poster.
I'm running into a problem with one of our telco providers when we make a call that ends up being not in service or some other error. In this case our ACK's are not working and the phone line stays open for a period of time until something times out on their end.
They claim the issue is that our negative ACK message is dropping one of the Via headers. This is the only case I can find in our setup where Kamailio does this. But it does drop the first Via, which is the first hop in our internal network.
I don't understand why this is a problem for them, and I'm still trying to get a reasonable explanation out of them. Technically, I don't see why it would be a problem. This behaviour is not an issue with our other telco providers. Strangely enough, it is also not an issue for this provider when we make the calls over their MPLS network (we are switching to the internet).
My question is, can this behaviour be changed in Kamailio somehow? Is there a way for it to keep all the Via headers for negative ACK's?
Or, do I just need to poke them harder to fix their issues?
My setup:
Source -> Kamailio -> Firewall (NAT, SIP ALG) -> Telco Provider
I hope I have provided enough information.
Thanks!
Michael