Re: [PATCH v4] netfilter: nf_conntrack_sip: Handle Cisco 7941/7945 IP phones

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On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 08:33:58PM -0800, 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.

Applied, thanks Kevin.
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