Re: [rtcweb] STUN for keep-alive

Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no> Wed, 14 September 2011 16:12 UTC

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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] STUN for keep-alive
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On 09/14/11 15:07, Christer Holmberg wrote:
> Hi,
>
>>> |Sure, but there is still a max time between the keep-alives.
>> You are free to set it to a very long duration that disables
>> keepalives for all practical purposes (assuming such duration
>> is represented by a 32-bit unsigned integer you can set it to
>> ~136 years).
> Yes, but at the end of the day something has to be sent in order to keep the NAT binding open.
>
>>> |Using e.g. RTP, the media handler would not have to be prepared to
>>> |receive the STUN keep-alives in the first place, it could
>>> |simply just
>>> |relay whatever comes on the media plane.
>> If the media handles can handle STUN binding requests
>> efficiently I don't see why they can't handle STUN binding
>> indications (keepalives) in a similar manner.
> I believe it knows when to expect those. But, in any case, the main reason behind the proposal is to decrease the number of STUN requests.
I think it's a more urgent desire that we should minimize the number of 
variants of protocols in use.
Defining a variant of ICE that modifies the keepalive mechanism seems to 
me like a Bad Idea.

                      Harald