1. SL Module Bogdan Iancu FhG FOKUS Daniel-Constantin Mierla asipto.com Copyright � 2003 FhG FOKUS __________________________________________________________________ 1.1. Overview 1.2. Parameters 1.2.1. default_code (int) 1.2.2. default_reason (str) 1.2.3. bind_tm (int) 1.3. Functions 1.3.1. sl_send_reply(code, reason) 1.3.2. send_reply(code, reason) 1.3.3. sl_reply_error() 1.4. Statistics 1.4.1. 1xx_replies 1.4.2. 200_replies 1.4.3. 202_replies 1.4.4. 2xx_replies 1.4.5. 300_replies 1.4.6. 301_replies 1.4.7. 302_replies 1.4.8. 3xx_replies 1.4.9. 400_replies 1.4.10. 401_replies 1.4.11. 403_replies 1.4.12. 404_replies 1.4.13. 407_replies 1.4.14. 408_replies 1.4.15. 483_replies 1.4.16. 4xx_replies 1.4.17. 500_replies 1.4.18. 5xx_replies 1.4.19. 6xx_replies 1.4.20. xxx_replies 1.4.21. sent_replies 1.4.22. sent_err_replies 1.4.23. failures 1.4.24. received_ACKs 1.1. Overview The SL module allows ser to act as a stateless UA server and generate replies to SIP requests without keeping state. That is beneficial in many scenarios, in which you wish not to burden server's memory and scale well. The SL module needs to filter ACKs sent after a local stateless reply to an INVITE was generated. To recognize such ACKs, ser adds a special "signature" in to-tags. This signature is sought for in incoming ACKs, and if included, the ACKs are absorbed. To speed up the filtering process, the module uses a timeout mechanism. When a reply is sent, a timer us set. As time as the timer is valid, The incoming ACK requests will be checked using TO tag value Once the timer expires, all the ACK are let through - a long time passed till it sent a reply, so it does not expect any ACK that have to be blocked. The ACK filtering may fail in some rare cases. If you think these matter to you, better use stateful processing (tm module) for INVITE processing. Particularly, the problem happens when a UA sends an INVITE which already has a to-tag in it (e.g., a re-INVITE) and SER want to reply to it. Than, it will keep the current to-tag, which will be mirrored in ACK. SER will not see its signature and forward the ACK downstream. Caused harm is not bad--just a useless ACK is forwarded. 1.2. Parameters 1.2.1. default_code (int) Default reply status code. Default value is 500. Example 1. default_code example ... modparam("sl", "default_code", 505) ... 1.2.2. default_reason (str) Default reply reason phrase. Default value is 'Internal Server Error'. Example 2. default_reason example ... modparam("sl", "default_reason", "Server Error") ... 1.2.3. bind_tm (int) Controls if SL module should attempt to bind to TM module in order to send stateful reply when the transaction is created. Default value is 1 (enabled). Example 3. bind_tm example ... modparam("sl", "bind_tm", 0) # feature disabled ... 1.3. Functions 1.3.1. sl_send_reply(code, reason) For the current request, a reply is sent back having the given code and text reason. The reply is sent stateless, totally independent of the Transaction module and with no retransmission for the INVITE's replies. Meaning of the parameters is as follows: * code - Return code. * reason - Reason phrase. Example 4. sl_send_reply usage ... sl_send_reply("404", "Not found"); ... 1.3.2. send_reply(code, reason) For the current request, a reply is sent back having the given code and text reason. The reply is sent stateful or stateless, depending of the TM module: if the transaction for current request is created, then the reply is sent stateful, otherwise stateless. Meaning of the parameters is as follows: * code - Return code. * reason - Reason phrase. This function can be used from REQUEST_ROUTE, FAILURE_ROUTE, BRANCH_ROUTE. Example 5. send_reply usage ... send_reply("404", "Not found"); ... send_reply("403", "Invalid user - $fU"); ... 1.3.3. sl_reply_error() Sends back an error reply describing the nature of the last internal error. Usually this function should be used after a script function that returned an error code. Example 6. sl_reply_error usage ... sl_reply_error(); ... 1.4. Statistics 1.4.1. 1xx_replies Number of 1xx replies. 1.4.2. 200_replies Number of 201 replies. 1.4.3. 202_replies Number of 202 replies. 1.4.4. 2xx_replies Number of 2xx replies. 1.4.5. 300_replies Number of 300 replies. 1.4.6. 301_replies Number of 301 replies. 1.4.7. 302_replies Number of 302 replies. 1.4.8. 3xx_replies Number of 3xx replies. 1.4.9. 400_replies Number of 400 replies. 1.4.10. 401_replies Number of 401 replies. 1.4.11. 403_replies Number of 403 replies. 1.4.12. 404_replies Number of 404 replies. 1.4.13. 407_replies Number of 407 replies. 1.4.14. 408_replies Number of 408 replies. 1.4.15. 483_replies Number of 483 replies. 1.4.16. 4xx_replies Number of 4xx replies. 1.4.17. 500_replies Number of 500 replies. 1.4.18. 5xx_replies Number of 5xx replies. 1.4.19. 6xx_replies Number of 6xx replies. 1.4.20. xxx_replies Number of replies whose code don't match any above. 1.4.21. sent_replies Number of all sent replies. 1.4.22. sent_err_replies Number of sent error replies. 1.4.23. failures Number of failures. 1.4.24. received_ACKs Number of received ACKs filtered by SL module.