[libnice] STUN request timeouts?

[Philip Withnall]

On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 23:32 +0100, Miguel París Díaz wrote:
> I also think that it should be configurable.
> Could we add a property for NiceAgent?

Yeah, do you think you could add the following properties?
 • NiceAgent:stun-retransmission-timeout, giving RTO in milliseconds
 • NiceAgent:stun-retransmission-count, giving Rc

I will be happy to review any patches. :-)

Philip

> El 2/3/2015 17:04, "Olivier Crête" <olivier.crete at collabora.com>
> escribió:
>         Hi,
>         
>         There is a timer inside the STUN code, it is currently
>         hard-coded to
>         start at 600ms and only re-try 3 times. Our observation was
>         that it
>         would take too long to timeout when the server didn't exist
>         otherwise.
>         
>         You can modify it in stun/usages/stuntimer.h by changing
>         STUN_TIMER_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT and
>         STUN_TIMER_DEFAULT_MAX_RETRANSMISSIONS
>         
>         Ideally, I guess they should be made runtime configurable as
>         recommended
>         by RFC 5389 section 7.2.1.
>         
>         Olivier
>         
>         On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 16:22 +0100, Miguel París Díaz wrote:
>         > Hello,
>         >
>         > I am using libnice 0.1.7 into an environment where STUN
>         requests are
>         > answered in 6 seconds (approximately).
>         > This cause that "gathering-done" signal is launched before
>         the srflx
>         > candidates are gathered or if I set "upnp-timeout" property
>         [1] to
>         > 15000 mseconds the STUN packets are pushed to the user-data
>         callback
>         > and the candidates are not detected.
>         >
>         >
>         > From this observations, are there some hard timeouts into
>         libnice for
>         > STUN protocol?
>         >
>         > In this case, how can I solve my problem? The timeouts
>         should be
>         > configurable, or something like that?
>         >
>         >
>         > Thanks in advance!!
>         >
>         >
>         > [1]
>         >
>         http://nice.freedesktop.org/libnice/NiceAgent.html#NiceAgent--upnp-timeout
>         >
>         > --
>         > Miguel París Díaz
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