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Commit 0a6e06c7 authored by Kevin P. Fleming's avatar Kevin P. Fleming
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Rework of T.38 negotiation and UDPTL API to address interoperability problems

Over the past couple of months, a number of issues with Asterisk
negotiating (and successfully completing) T.38 sessions with various
endpoints have been found. This patch attempts to address many of
them, primarily focused around ensuring that the endpoints'
MaxDatagram size is honored, and in addition by ensuring that T.38
session parameter negotiation is performed correctly according to the
ITU T.38 Recommendation.

The major changes here are:

1) T.38 applications in Asterisk (app_fax) only generate/receive IFP
packets, they do not ever work with UDPTL packets. As a result of
this, they cannot be allowed to generate packets that would overflow
the other endpoints' MaxDatagram size after the UDPTL stack adds any
error correction information. With this patch, the application is told
the maximum *IFP* size it can generate, based on a calculation using
the far end MaxDatagram size and the active error correction mode on
the T.38 session. The same is true for sending *our* MaxDatagram size
to the remote endpoint; it is computed from the value that the
application says it can accept (for a single IFP packet) combined with
the active error correction mode.

2) All treatment of T.38 session parameters as 'capabilities' in
chan_sip has been removed; these parameters are not at all like
audio/video stream capabilities. There are strict rules to follow for
computing an answer to a T.38 offer, and chan_sip now follows those
rules, using the desired parameters from the application (or channel)
that wants to accept the T.38 negotiation.

3) chan_sip now stores and forwards ast_control_t38_parameters
structures for tracking 'our' and 'their' T.38 session parameters;
this greatly simplifies negotiation, especially for pass-through
calls.

4) Since T.38 negotiation without specifying parameters or receiving
the final negotiated parameters is not very worthwhile, the
AST_CONTROL_T38 control frame has been removed. A note has been added
to UPGRADE.txt about this removal, since any out-of-tree applications
that use it will no longer function properly until they are upgraded
to use AST_CONTROL_T38_PARAMETERS.

Review: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/310/



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