Greetings, I'm very new to the SIP protocol. I am a SQA test engineer with very limited experience using Perl and C. Currently I am testing the SIP signaling manager on our companys softswitch. I would like to use the SER for testing some new features, like Record-Route and Route Header support amoung other things. But first I'd like to get past a problem with SER sending multiple invites. I have successfully installed ser 0.8.10. on a PC running Red Hat Linux.

Detailed OS and SER versions are at the end of this message. I am not using SQL or Digest/HTTP Authentication. I want to keep things as simple as possible until I gain more experience with ser. Here is a simple diagram of my test environment Phone A --------------- S E R ---------------- Softswitch ---------------Phone B 603-753-4033 sip signal mangr 603-225-1114 10.16.1.218 10.16.1.147 172.17.4.102 10.16.1.214 (note: attached media gateway not used for sip & not shown) I believe have setup our softswitch with correct SIP profile, E164 and destination route for the Sip Express Router. I can successfully originate a call from a phone registered to SER to a phone registered to our softswitch using the following addition to the default ser.cfg file that comes with ser 0.8.10 if (method=="INVITE") { rewriteuri("sip:6032251114@172.17.4.102"); forward(172.17.4.102); Plese refer to the attached network trace diagram. It was captured using Ethereal, filtering on all packets to/from the sip signaling manager. The trace dump is then manipulated by a sip utility tool "sip_scenario" that creates a sip call flow diagram with decoded sip packets....this allows ease of viewing call flow & packets QUESTIONS: 1. Why am I receiving multiple invites?

Especially after Phone B answers and it's 200OK is received by SER, I see another 6 invites (in addition to several extra's at the beginning of the message). If I hang up before SER sends the last one phone B will ring. It takes about 30 seconds or so to stop. 2. What routing logic can I insert to take any invite starting with 603-225- and forward it to the softswitch with the correct dialed digits. The above works great but is hard coded for just one number.