Re: [PATCH v3 resend] netfilter: nf_conntrack_sip: Handle Cisco 7941/7945IP phones

From: Pablo Neira Ayuso
Date: Thu May 26 2011 - 14:08:59 EST


On 26/05/11 19:57, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le jeudi 26 mai 2011 Ã 18:50 +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso a Ãcrit :
>> Hi Eric,
>>
>> On 20/05/11 06:36, Kevin Cernekee wrote:
>>> Most SIP devices use a source port of 5060/udp on SIP requests, so the
>>> response automatically comes back to port 5060:
>>>
>>> phone_ip:5060 -> proxy_ip:5060 REGISTER
>>> proxy_ip:5060 -> phone_ip:5060 100 Trying
>>>
>>> The newer Cisco IP phones, however, use a randomly chosen high source
>>> port for the SIP request but expect the response on port 5060:
>>>
>>> phone_ip:49173 -> proxy_ip:5060 REGISTER
>>> proxy_ip:5060 -> phone_ip:5060 100 Trying
>>>
>>> Standard Linux NAT, with or without nf_nat_sip, will send the reply back
>>> to port 49173, not 5060:
>>>
>>> phone_ip:49173 -> proxy_ip:5060 REGISTER
>>> proxy_ip:5060 -> phone_ip:49173 100 Trying
>>>
>>> But the phone is not listening on 49173, so it will never see the reply.
>>>
>>> This patch modifies nf_*_sip to work around this quirk by extracting
>>> the SIP response port from the Via: header, iff the source IP in the
>>> packet header matches the source IP in the SIP request.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> @Eric: could you please confirm that you ack'ed this patch? I don't find
>> the email with your explicit ack.
>
> Yes I did it ;)
>
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/netfilter/msg49632.html
>
> Thanks !

OK, applied, thanks!
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