Re: [rtcweb] STUN for keep-alive

"Muthu Arul Mozhi Perumal (mperumal)" <mperumal@cisco.com> Wed, 14 September 2011 12:06 UTC

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From: "Muthu Arul Mozhi Perumal (mperumal)" <mperumal@cisco.com>
To: Christer Holmberg <christer.holmberg@ericsson.com>, rtcweb@ietf.org
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|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).

|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. On the other hand, if the media handles aren't STUN
aware and are just relaying STUN binding requests in the media plane as
UDP/RTP, they would do the same also for STUN keepalives.

Muthu

|-----Original Message-----
|From: Christer Holmberg [mailto:christer.holmberg@ericsson.com]
|Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 5:01 PM
|To: Muthu Arul Mozhi Perumal (mperumal); rtcweb@ietf.org
|Subject: RE: [rtcweb] STUN for keep-alive
|
|
|Hi,
|
|>>|Well, it depends on the amount of outgoing media traffic, but in
cases
|>>|where you only receive media you would still need to send
keep-alives.
|>
|> If you are not sending anything the NAT binding in that
|> direction will likely timeout. On the other hand, if you are
|> operating in a controlled environment ICE already allows you
|> to set the STUN keepalive duration to the longest duration
|> possible in your environment, so it is already flexible.
|
|Sure, but there is still a max time between the keep-alives.
|
|>However, it mandates STUN keepalives to be used when an agent
|>is a full ICE implementation and is communicating with a peer
|>that supports ICE (lite/full). Are you saying it should allow
|>a different UDP keepalive method because it can possible have
|>a lesser performance impact?
|
|Yes.
|
|Also, it's not only about how often the STUN keep-alives would be sent,
and the perfomance impact that
|would have. 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.
|
|Regards,
|
|Christer
|
|
|
|
|> |-----Original Message-----
|> |From: Christer Holmberg [mailto:christer.holmberg@ericsson.com]
|> |Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 3:59 PM
|> |To: Muthu Arul Mozhi Perumal (mperumal); rtcweb@ietf.org
|> |Subject: RE: [rtcweb] STUN for keep-alive
|> |
|> |
|> |Hi,
|> |
|> |>|Because, eventhough the keep-alives messages aren't authenticated,
|> and
|> |>|do not trigger responses, a gateway would still have to
|> process them,
|> |>|and since a gateway typically would serve a large
|> number of browser
|> |>|clients, that could have quite big performance impact (the
|> number of
|> |>|STUN keep-alives sent per session of course depend on how
|> much other
|> |>|media traffic there is, but still).
|> |>
|> |>STUN keepalives are required by ICE only in the absence of media
|> |>traffic.
|> |
|> |Yes. That's what I meant with the:
|> |
|> |	"(the number of STUN keep-alives sent per session of course
|> depend on how much other media
|> |traffic there is, but still)"
|> |
|> |...statement :)
|> |
|> |>Here are the snip from RFC 5245:
|> |>
|> |><snip>
|> |>10.  Keepalives
|> |>
|> |>If there has been no packet sent on the candidate pair ICE is using
|> |>for a media component for Tr seconds (where packets include those
|> |>defined for the component (RTP or RTCP) and previous
|> keepalives), an
|> |>agent MUST generate a keepalive on that pair.  Tr SHOULD be
|> |>configurable and SHOULD have a default of 15 seconds.  Tr
|> MUST NOT be
|> |>configured to less than 15 seconds.
|> |></snip>
|> |>
|> |><snip>
|> |>20.2.3.  Keepalives
|> |>
|> |>STUN keepalives (in the form of STUN Binding Indications)
|> are sent in
|> |>the middle of a media session.  However, they are sent only in the
|> |>absence of actual media traffic. In deployments that are
|> not utilizing
|> |>Voice Activity Detection (VAD), the keepalives are never used and
|> |>there is no increase in bandwidth usage.  When VAD is being used,
|> |>keepalives will be sent during silence periods.  This involves a
|> |>single packet every 15-20 seconds, far less than the packet every
|> |>20-30 ms that is sent when there is voice.  Therefore, keepalives
|> |>don't have any real impact on capacity planning.
|> |></snip>
|> |>
|> |>Do you think there is still a problem?
|> |
|> |Well, it depends on the amount of outgoing media traffic,
|> but in cases
|> where you only receive media
|> |you would still need to send keep-alives.
|> |
|> |Regards,
|> |
|> |Christer
|>