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New to viop.
I using snom 300 and have voipfone registered. Log shows traffic - 500
to 1000 bytes - every 60 seconds. This seems excessive and could eat
into my usage. Is there a setting I have wrong or is this normal ie the
way it works?
In contrast, Sipgate connects every 600 seconds ie every ten minutes.
TIA for any feedback.

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On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:32:16 +0000, www.GymRatZ.co.uk wrote:
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> I'm pretty sure it's not re-registering, it's just responding to a ping
> from the voipfone server so very little data exchange whatsoever.
> Certainly nothing to worry about.

I have just checked and it is a full REGISTER request - in fact, in my case
it even sends the REGISTER request twice: the first time without
authentication and then again with authentication (using Twinkle).


Christof

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On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 08:06:54 UTC, Christof Meerwald
<NOSPAM-seeMySig+u7u5+@usenet.cmeerw.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:32:16 +0000, www.GymRatZ.co.uk wrote:
> [...]
> > I'm pretty sure it's not re-registering, it's just responding to a ping
> > from the voipfone server so very little data exchange whatsoever.
> > Certainly nothing to worry about.
>
> I have just checked and it is a full REGISTER request - in fact, in my case
> it even sends the REGISTER request twice: the first time without
> authentication and then again with authentication (using Twinkle).

I think that is normal - The two requests I mean. There should be a
setting somewhere, in seconds, as to how often it reregisters. 3600 is
good.
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Paul McGuinness wrote:
> New to viop.
> I using snom 300 and have voipfone registered. Log shows traffic - 500
> to 1000 bytes - every 60 seconds. This seems excessive and could eat
> into my usage. Is there a setting I have wrong or is this normal ie the
> way it works?

It is the way they do it. Something to do with load balancing/failover.


Actually, on most phones it will be a registration every 30 seconds. It
is fairly standard to attempt re-registration at half the remaining
registration time.


Tim

Christof Meerwald wrote:
> I have just checked and it is a full REGISTER request - in fact, in my case
> it even sends the REGISTER request twice: the first time without
> authentication and then again with authentication (using Twinkle).

This dual registration is a standard part of the challenge response
digest part of SIP authentication.

It is done to protect your password.

Tim

Paul McGuinness wrote:

> New to viop.
> I using snom 300 and have voipfone registered. Log shows traffic - 500
> to 1000 bytes - every 60 seconds.

Does your handset offer any options to adjust the registration expiry timer?

> This seems excessive and could eat
> into my usage. Is there a setting I have wrong or is this normal ie the
> way it works?

If ~40MB of data a month makes a significant difference to whether or not
you hit your tariff limit, move to an ISP with more generous data
allowance.

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>Paul McGuinness wrote:
>
>> New to viop.
>> I using snom 300 and have voipfone registered. Log shows traffic - 500
>> to 1000 bytes - every 60 seconds.
>
>Does your handset offer any options to adjust the registration expiry timer?
>
>> This seems excessive and could eat
>> into my usage. Is there a setting I have wrong or is this normal ie the
>> way it works?
>
>If ~40MB of data a month makes a significant difference to whether or not
>you hit your tariff limit, move to an ISP with more generous data
>allowance.
>
I hadn't done the math. 40mb does seem a small amount.
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On Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:04:22 +0000, "www.GymRatZ.co.uk"
<> wrote:

>Dave Saville wrote:
>
>> I think that is normal - The two requests I mean. There should be a
>> setting somewhere, in seconds, as to how often it reregisters. 3600 is
>> good.
>
>On the gigaset I have now there is nothing like that, and when I was
>using the Draytek even though I was able to change the settings it made
>no difference and Voipfone tech chap said they pinged the ATA every 60
>seconds regardless.

The *outgoing* refresh can be changed on the Gigaset.

Settings->Telephony->Connections

Select Edit for the connection you want to change, then Show
Advanced Settings. You will see boxes for Registration refresh, the
NAT refresh and the STUN refresh times.

I know from trying it that if you set the NAT refresh to 0 then no
NAT refresh is done at all.

Regards,
Harry.


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On Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:47:39 +0000, Tim wrote:
> Christof Meerwald wrote:
>> I have just checked and it is a full REGISTER request - in fact, in my case
>> it even sends the REGISTER request twice: the first time without
>> authentication and then again with authentication (using Twinkle).
> This dual registration is a standard part of the challenge response
> digest part of SIP authentication.

Ahh yes, of course - I didn't look close enough to spot this. Thanks for
pointing it out.


Christof

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alexd wrote:
> Paul McGuinness wrote:
>
>> New to viop.
>> I using snom 300 and have voipfone registered. Log shows traffic - 500
>> to 1000 bytes - every 60 seconds.
>
> Does your handset offer any options to adjust the registration expiry timer?
>
>

It wouldn't make any difference. Voipfone overide it.

The phone specifies a proposed expiry time. The registrar can override
this.

Tim