Joshua is right, Max-Forwards is mandatory for request messages. ACK and BYE both are requests, not response messages. Harry Am 18.02.2015 um 18:23 schrieb Anatoli: > Joshua, > > Maybe it's my wrong understanding, but what would be an ACK message as a > reply to, say, INVITE? Or what would be an INVITE on behalf of another > endpoint? Anyway, both of these (as all other messages, like BYE) are sent > without max_fwd header. Please try to reproduce it as described in my first > email. > > Here is the issue in the Asterisk issue tracker: > https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-24807. > > Regards, > Anatoli > > -----Original Message----- > From: pjsip [mailto:pjsip-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joshua Colp > Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 13:51 > To: pjsip list > Subject: Re: Possible bug - missing mandatory field Max-Forwards > > Anatoli wrote: >> Joshua, Harry, >> >> Thanks for the clarifications. Indeed, res/res_pjsip/config_global.c >> manages somehow max_fwd option and it looks like it adds it to all >> requests, but not to the responses (simply adding >> ast_sip_add_global_response_header("Max-Forwards", max_forwards, 1); >> into global_apply() doesn't work). > I'm confused by your statement... the Max-Forwards header is for > requests, not for responses. >