Draft: draft-ietf-sipping-config-framework-08.txt Reviewer: Christian Stredicke [Christian.Stredicke@snom.de] Review Date: Tuesday 7/4/2006 11:28 AM CST Review Deadline: Status: post WGLC Summary: There are many small networks that do have DHCP, but the DHCP server can not provide the address of the local SIP proxy. In these cases IMHO we must use a broadcast or multicast detection method where the proxy is. I would suggest trying to send the SUBSCRIBE packet to the multicast address sip.mcast.net (§10.2.6 RFC3261) if the DHCP provisioning method fails. The whole thing then would look like this: Sent to: 224.0.1.75:5060 (sip.mcast.net) SUBSCRIBE sip:MAC%3a000413230A07@localhost SIP/2.0 Via: SIP/2.0/UDP 172.20.25.100:2138;rport From: ;tag=6064 To: Call-ID: 4407@172.20.25.100 CSeq: 1 SUBSCRIBE Event: ua-profile;profile-type="device"; vendor="snom";model="snom300";version="6.2.2" Expires: 0 Accept: application/url Contact: Content-Length: 0 If there is not answer to the multicast packet after a reasonable number of retries the UA would give up and try the mechanism that are outside of the local area network. The rest would work as proposed in the draft and looks good to me. ]