You are welcome. On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 5:28 PM Anjan Naik <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thank you for the clarification. > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2019, 8:33 PM George Vagenas <[email protected] wrote: > >> Anjan, >> >> The reason behind this is to keep 5060 available for incoming traffic and >> assign a dynamic/ephemeral port for outgoing traffic. >> >> George >> >> On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 4:58 PM Anjan Naik <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Thanks George. >>> >>> But my concern is what is the benifit if server use Ephemeral port >>> instead of 5060 for outgoing port ? >>> Could you please explain bit more on this ? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Anjan >>> >>> On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 8:19 PM George Vagenas <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Anjan, >>>> >>>> The use of the ephimeral port is not SIP specific but because of the >>>> TCP/IP stack. >>>> And even though the outgoing messages will be sent over an ephemeral >>>> port, the message is prepared using the standard ports the SIP stack is >>>> listening so subsequent requests and responses are able to reach back. >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> George >>>> >>>> On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 4:25 PM Anjan Naik <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> HI, >>>>> >>>>> By default SIP uses port 5060 for incoming and outgoing messages. But >>>>> In >>>>> some cases, I have seen, the incoming port used by server is 5060 but >>>>> when >>>>> it sends outgoing packet, it uses Ephimeral port. >>>>> >>>>> Could someone please explain me , why this Ephimeral ports being used >>>>> ? and >>>>> what is it benifits.? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> Anjan >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Sip-implementors mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/sip-implementors >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> George Vagenas >>>> >>> >> >> -- >> George Vagenas >> > -- George Vagenas _______________________________________________ Sip-implementors mailing list [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/sip-implementors
