Re: Issue with Kannel as a wap gateway

Paul P Komkoff Jr <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mobile.kannel.devel
Organization Department of Fish & Wildlife
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Replying to Oded Arbel:
> Yes - that indeed was the problem. the bearerbox was configured to bind the 
> WDP listener to all interfaces, which included an interface with a few 
> virtual IPs (aliases). the packets from the phone where received on one of 
> these aliases, but the response was sent from the primary (real) interface. 
> the firewall in front of the machine then probably discarded the packet as 
> not belonging to the same connection (its a stateful firewall. I'm not sure 
> that it did that, but the fact was that the response was sent, but never 
> received by the phone).

:)))
I'v beaten by the issue long time. Some phones working with this
setup, some don't.

> I think that the response should be generated from the same IP the request was 
> made to.

I have a patch (along with others) which address this issue, and many
more.

Basically, you put space-separated list of ip addresses in
wdp-interfaces statement in .conf, and patched kannel send
responces from proper addresses.

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