Hi Christian,

the parallel fork looks ok (as design) - on a first look, the problem seams to be related to some ACK-matching which leads to the 487 retransmission - could you please send me (privately) the pcap or ngrep of the whole calls? it will be easier for me to debug.

regarding your question about loading new branches form DB, you can use avp_db_load() or avp_db_query() to load the branches and avp_pushto("$br",..) to push the loaded avps as new branches. See: http://www.openser.org/docs/modules/1.2.x/avpops.html

regards, bogdan

Christian Schlatter wrote:

I try to fork a call to another user registered at the same proxy as the caller. I figured out that the easiest method would be to use the append_branch() function, something like

route[0] {

if (method=="REGISTER") { save("location"); exit; }

if (!lookup("location")) {
    sl_send_reply("404", "Not Found");
    exit;
}

# if someone calls test2@domain, fork call to test4@domain
# (test2 and test4 are both registered at domain)
if (avp_check("$rU", "eq/test2")) {
            append_branch("sip:test4@127.0.0.1");
    }

if (!t_relay()) {
            sl_reply_error();
    };
    exit;

}

I know that this could also be achieved by adding permanent location records, but I'd like to load the forking targets from a DB in the future. So my first question would be if using

append_branch("sip:test4@127.0.0.1");

is the correct way to do parallel forking to a local user.

I'm asking because this method does not work for me as expected. It seems that the two UAC state machines running on the same proxy host that are involved in a forking call do somehow not work well together.

Forking the INVITE to both test2 and test4 works well, but when I pick up test2 the call gets terminated after a few seconds. Further investigations have revealed that canceling the second call leg does not work correctly. There is a message flow diagram available at http://www.unc.edu/~cschlatt/openser.html .

For some reason, the proxy process sending from 127.0.0.1 is retransmitting the 487 "Request Terminated" although it receives ACKs from the upstream proxy. And this causes the upstream proxy to send a 487 back to the caller (time 15.360), which then terminates the call established between caller and test2.

And this only happens if I fork to the same proxy, if I use two proxy hosts everything works fine (??).

Any advice is highly appreciated,

Christian

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