Well the thing is just because you sniffed the packet off the wire doesn't in any way mean the "client" (i.e. the SIP software) has actually received it. In fact, a pretty reasonable piece of SIP code (I'll just write Python pseudo-code for brevity) might look something like: s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) s.connect( (server, port) ) s.send('REGISTER ....') while True : bytes = s.recv(256) if len(bytes) == 0 : # uh-oh, the remote end closed the socket And in fact even if the OS has received the [FIN,ACK] already when s.send() is called, this will *not* cause an error. The send() will complete successfully. Try it! On 5/7/13 2:58 PM, Khoa Pham wrote: > @Jens, thanks for reply > > But client already received the [FIN,ACK] from server, it should know > that sending REGISTER does not make sense anymore > > > On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Jens Jorgensen <jbj1 at ultraemail.net > <mailto:jbj1 at ultraemail.net>> wrote: > > You make it sound like you want the client to hang up?! As you > know, the primary way a program finds out if a socket is closed is > to try reading or writing on it. In this case the server has > closed its end of the socket but the client probably doesn't know > that (yet)--evidently because it thought it would get the chance > to REGISTER > > On 5/6/13 5:15 PM, Khoa Pham wrote: >> Hi pjsip team, >> >> When I make REGISTER request to server, I often receive this >> >> 1. client: SYN >> 2. server: SYN, ACK >> 3. client: ACK >> 4. server: FIN, ACK >> 5. client: REGISTER >> 6. server: RST >> >> Why in step 5 does client not send FIN, ACK ?? >> >> -- >> Khoa Pham >> HCMC University of Science >> Faculty of Information Technology >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Visit our blog: http://blog.pjsip.org >> >> pjsip mailing list >> pjsip at lists.pjsip.org <mailto:pjsip at lists.pjsip.org> >> http://lists.pjsip.org/mailman/listinfo/pjsip_lists.pjsip.org > > -- > Jens B. Jorgensen > jbj1 at ultraemail.net <mailto:jbj1 at ultraemail.net> > > > _______________________________________________ > Visit our blog: http://blog.pjsip.org > > pjsip mailing list > pjsip at lists.pjsip.org <mailto:pjsip at lists.pjsip.org> > http://lists.pjsip.org/mailman/listinfo/pjsip_lists.pjsip.org > > > > > -- > Khoa Pham > HCMC University of Science > Faculty of Information Technology > > > _______________________________________________ > Visit our blog: http://blog.pjsip.org > > pjsip mailing list > pjsip at lists.pjsip.org > http://lists.pjsip.org/mailman/listinfo/pjsip_lists.pjsip.org -- Jens B. Jorgensen jbj1 at ultraemail.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.pjsip.org/pipermail/pjsip_lists.pjsip.org/attachments/20130507/4b142905/attachment-0001.html>