[cisco-voip] MoH with H323, MTP checked

Adam Frankel (afrankel) afrankel at cisco.com
Mon Nov 28 12:11:52 EST 2011


You should not need to enable duplex streaming under normal 
circumstances, however some service providers are unable to handle 
0.0.0.0 in the SDP properly.  Duplex streaming should be a sufficient 
workaround for those cases.

-Adam


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*From:* Peter Slow <peter.slow at gmail.com>
*Sent:* Mon, Nov 28, 2011 11:27:00 AM
*To:* Ahmed Elnagar <ahmed_elnagar at hotmail.com>, cisco voip 
<cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>
*CC:*
*Subject:* Re: [cisco-voip] MoH with H323, MTP checked

> I was in the middle of sending the below email when you found the 
> workaround to your issue. The next troubleshooting steps are below for 
> everyone else to see.
>
> you should not have to enable duplex streaming to resolve your issue 
> under non-bug circumstances. If you are hitting CSCtl21854 and 
> enabling duplex streaming fixed your issue, the below instructions 
> would've shown the gateway receiving packets - you would've known then 
> that the gateway was most likely at fault for the silence, assuming 
> the received packets had a good payload =)
>
> two things:
> 1. Make sure you remember to turn CEF back on since you said you 
> disabled it
> 2. you should now notice when you place a call on hold that you see 
> the remote IP of your MoH Server instead of 0.0.0.0 and the status 
> should be sendrecv instead of recvonly. whole on hold. You'll need to 
> follow calls a little differently to track down which ones are on hold 
> now through your MTP, since it wont be as obvious.
>
> nice job finding your solution,
>
> -Peter
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Peter Slow <peter.slow at gmail.com 
> <mailto:peter.slow at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     not sure what was goign on in that thread, but the next questions
>     to ask are:
>
>     when the PSTN party is placed on hold, you mentioned they don't
>     hear anything. Tell me more: was there any noise at all such as an
>     initial beep or repeating noise such as tone on hold, or is it
>     just dead silence?
>
>     what codec does the voip leg of your call establish using? -
>     compare this to the MoH codecs enabled under IPVMSApp's service
>     parameters.
>
>     under the connection you see in "show sccp connection" if you take
>     the port numbers from that output and find the corresponding call
>     under sh rtpspi call, then take the call ID from that and look at
>     the call in "sh rtpspi stat" repeatedly while on hold, are your
>     receive packets increasing? (That command is hardware depedent.
>     please send the list a show diag. or "sh diag | inc FRU"
>
>     How many MoH Servers total are in your Gateway's MRGL?
>
>     -Peter
>
>
>
>
>     On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Ahmed Elnagar
>     <ahmed_elnagar at hotmail.com <mailto:ahmed_elnagar at hotmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         And FYI I tried disabling CEF and did not work also.
>
>         *Regards,*
>
>         *Ahmed Elnagar *|*Unified Communication Team Leader *| *CCIE
>         #24697, Voice*
>
>         Description: Description: MS Green
>
>         *From:*cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
>         <mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net>
>         [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
>         <mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net>] *On Behalf Of
>         *Ahmed Elnagar
>         *Sent:* Monday, November 28, 2011 5:59 PM
>         *To:* 'Peter Slow'
>         *Cc:* 'cisco voip'
>
>
>         *Subject:* Re: [cisco-voip] MoH with H323, MTP checked
>
>         Thanks peter for the reply
>
>         First I think I have the same issue like that guy
>
>         https://supportforums.cisco.com/message/3333561#3333561
>
>         to answer your Qs
>
>         1-Yes
>
>         2-Yes
>
>         3-MoH works fine internally
>
>         *Regards,*
>
>         *Ahmed Elnagar *|*Unified Communication Team Leader *| *CCIE
>         #24697, Voice*
>
>         Description: Description: MS Green
>
>         *From:*Peter Slow [mailto:peter.slow at gmail.com]
>         *Sent:* Monday, November 28, 2011 5:45 PM
>         *To:* Ahmed Elnagar; cisco voip
>         *Subject:* Re: [cisco-voip] MoH with H323, MTP checked
>
>         Oops, adding the list back in. Sorry for spamming you Ahmed =)
>         I'm better at media resources than I am at email...
>
>         On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Peter Slow
>         <peter.slow at gmail.com <mailto:peter.slow at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         0.0.0.0 is normal if you are seeing it in the remote ip
>         address field of a sh sccp  command from the IOS MTP. That is
>         normal when you dont have full-duplex streaming enabled for
>         MoH. By default CUCM wont make a remote device send audio to
>         the MoH Server, since that's sort of a waste of bandwidth.
>         That behavior can be changed, but is most likely not your issue.
>
>         forgive me for asking stupid questions but I want to start at
>         square one.
>
>         1. Do you have two way audio to begin with before the PSTN
>         party is placed on hold?
>         2. Are you sure you can ping the MoH Server being allocated
>         from the IOS MTP that was in use?
>         3. if that same IP Phone places another IP Phone at a local
>         site on hold, does that person get MoH? What about at a remote
>         site?
>
>         we can dig deeper once i know those things ;) there are a
>         couple things to look at but this shouldnt be hard for us to fix.
>
>         -Pete
>
>         On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Ahmed Elnagar
>         <ahmed_elnagar at hotmail.com <mailto:ahmed_elnagar at hotmail.com>>
>         wrote:
>
>             Hi all;
>
>             I have a h323 gateway for PSTN calling through E1, I have
>             configured MRG and MRGL so that PSTN callers put on hold
>             should hear MOH; however they don't
>
>             I have MTP required checked and MRGL points to a MTP
>             device that is configured on the same gateway "with same
>             IP address for bind h323 and SCCP"
>
>             I can see the call when put on hold that the hold leg is
>             pointing to 0.0.0.0; when I change the MTP device to CUCM
>             it works fine.
>
>             Any ideas?
>
>             *Regards,*
>
>             *Ahmed Elnagar *|*Unified Communication Team Leader *|
>             *CCIE #24697, Voice*
>
>             Description: Description: MS Green
>
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