SIPp 3.1 released!

Rob Day — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:59:25 -0000

Its pleasure to announce the availability of SIPP version 3.1!
Contributors have enriched SIPp with new features, another step towards making a more complete SIP benchmark tool.

A lot of new enhancements and bug fixes have been added since 3.0.
Major changes include-

-Complete rework of the call structure, making the architecture more extensible and enable handling of out-of-call messages.
-Introduction of dead call class, to differentiate a dead call from "out-of-call" messages.

-Enhanced scenario capabilities with new actions and attributes.
-Introduction of out-of-call scenarios.
-Introduction of action 'jump' to go to new XML element.
-Introduction of element nop, to not drop the first message.
-Introduction of start_txn attribute, to enable starting of transaction by a UAC.

-Enhanced logging and display.
-Log files can now be treated as Ring Buffer
-Option to choose scenario to display on screen.
-Statistics more tied to scenarios.

and a lot of new features (see complete release notes)

We, thank the people contributing to this release, especially Charles P. Wright from IBM, and also:
M.H.VanLeeuwen
Andreas Bergmann
Marc VAN DIEST
Anuj Kumar Srivastava

in addition to people contributing to previous releases:
Klaus Darilion
Scott Oaks from SUN
Pandurangan R S
Artem Naluzhnyy
Kristoffer Gronowski from Ericsson
Anatoly Pidruchny
Marc Van Diest from Belgacom
Hemanth Balaji
Peter Higginson
Philippe Lecluse from Intel
Gareth Armstrong
Martin H. Van Leeuwen
Michael Hirschbichler from T.U Wien
Alexandre Ajjan from Atos Origin
Frederique Aurouet
Lee Ballard from General Bandwidth
Joseph Bannino from Atos Origin
Wolfgang Beck
Venu Bellary
Sapan Bhatia
Michel de Boer from Alcatel-Lucent
Clement Chen
Ly Cong-Dung
Alexandr Dubovikov
Stefan Esser
Bruno Guerin from Atos Origin
Enrico Hartung from iptel
Peter Higginson from Newport Networks
JPeG
Dmitriy Kargapolov
Nasir Khan.
Heikki Lindholm
Gerard Lyonnaz from HP
Mike Machado from Liveops
Lord Magnos
David Mansutti from HP
Kris Marsh
Scott McGlashan
Marco Miller
Shriram Natarajan from Personasoft
Amit On from Followap
Herve Pellan from HP
Lars Roland
Russel Roy
Martin Shaw
Guillaume Teissier from France Telecom R&D
Vlad Troyanker
Venkatesh

Regards
Anuj

SIPp 3.0 is released !

Rob Day — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:37:08 -0000

Greetings,

The SIPp contributors are happy to announce you the availability of the new SIPp stable version (3.0) !

A huge number of enhancements and bug fixes have been added since 2.0.1 version was released, including :

- a completely rework of the network I/O subsystem

- a new message parsing procedure

- a more powerful call variables handling, allowing arithmetical operations and string variables

- a new ‘users’ mode, useful for designing close-to-reality registration test cases

- the multi injection file support

and a lot of other useful features (see the complete release note here: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=104305&release_id=559051 ).

A lot of regression tests have been run to ensure the stability of this version, the numerous regression bugs faced recently have been fixed. As a consequence, the restriction on the user contributions is now lifted: enhancement patches can be submitted using the following link : http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=104305&atid=637566 , and will be reviewed for aceptance by the contributors. Unsolved bugs can be submitted here: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=104305&atid=637564 .

We’d like to thank the people contributing to this release, especially Charles P. Wright from IBM, and also:

Klaus Darilion
Scott Oaks from SUN
Pandurangan R S
Artem Naluzhnyy
Kristoffer Gronowski from Ericsson
Anatoly Pidruchny
Marc Van Diest from Belgacom
Hemanth Balaji
Peter Higginson
Philippe Lecluse from Intel
Gareth Armstrong
Martin H. Van Leeuwen
Michael Hirschbichler from T.U Wien

In addition, the people contributing since the initial 1.0 release:

Alexandre Ajjan from Atos Origin
Frederique Aurouet
Lee Ballard from General Bandwidth
Joseph Bannino from Atos Origin
Wolfgang Beck
Venu Bellary
Sapan Bhatia
Michel de Boer from Alcatel-Lucent
Clement Chen
Ly Cong-Dung
Alexandr Dubovikov
Stefan Esser
Bruno Guerin from Atos Origin
Enrico Hartung from iptel
Peter Higginson from Newport Networks
JPeG
Dmitriy Kargapolov
Nasir Khan.
Heikki Lindholm
Gerard Lyonnaz from HP
Mike Machado from Liveops
Lord Magnos
David Mansutti from HP
Kris Marsh
Scott McGlashan
Marco Miller
Shriram Natarajan from Personasoft
Amit On from Followap
Herve Pellan from HP
Lars Roland
Russel Roy
Martin Shaw
Guillaume Teissier from France Telecom R&D
Vlad Troyanker
Venkatesh

Best regards,

The SIPp contributors

Olivier Boulkroune

SIPp 2.0 released!

Rob Day — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:19:12 -0000

The SIPp contributors are happy to announce the availability of SIPp 2.0!
Since 1.1rc8, many new features and fixes, as well as tons of performance enhancements have been made.

You can get the full release notes there: https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=504154
And you can download SIPp 2.0 from: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=104305&package_id=119322&release_id=504154

This is a major milestone for SIPp. Starting right now, several contributors will work to add a big set of new features and enhancements, especially to transform SIPp into the ultimate SIP benchmark tool. Stay tuned!

But first, let's celebrate the moment and thanks all the people that contributed to the 2.0 release (since 1.1rc8):
Juan Antonio Alvarez
Olivier Boulkroune from Atos Origin
Michael Dwyer from Cibation
Ben Evans from Open Cloud.
Michael Hirschbichler from Technische Universitaet Wien
Olivier Jacques from HP
F. Tarek Rogers from Cisco
Marc Van Diest from Belgacom
Dragos Vingarzan from Fokus
Charles P. Wright from IBM Research

This is not to forget everybody that contributed since 1.0 was released:
Alexandre Ajjan from Atos Origin
Frederique Aurouet
Lee Ballard from General Bandwidth
Joseph Bannino from Atos Origin
Wolfgang Beck
Venu Bellary
Sapan Bhatia
Michel de Boer from Alcatel-Lucent
Clement Chen
Ly Cong-Dung
Alexandr Dubovikov
Bruno Guerin from Atos Origin
Enrico Hartung from iptel
Peter Higginson from Newport Networks
JPeG
Dmitriy Kargapolov
Nasir Khan.
Heikki Lindholm
Gerard Lyonnaz from HP
Mike Machado from Liveops
Lord Magnos
David Mansutti from HP
Kris Marsh
Scott McGlashan
Marco Miller
Shriram Natarajan from Personasoft
Amit On from Followap
Herve Pellan from HP
Lars Roland
Russel Roy
Martin Shaw
Guillaume Teissier from France Telecom R&D
Vlad Troyanker
Venkatesh

Thanks everyone, and have fun with SIPp!
Olivier Jacques - HP

SIPp 1.1rc8 released

Rob Day — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 18:49:29 -0000

SIPp 1.1rc8 has just been release.
Since 1.1rc6 (1.1rc7 was never released), many new features and fixes have been made (around 80).
The main one being:
- Performances have been greatly improved by, in some cases, a factor of 10
- Media play is supported on Windows platforms
- Statistical pauses emulate real user behaviors
- TCP/TLS has been fixed on windows platforms,
- Possibility to use SIPp as open loop generator
- Possibility to increase automatically the call rate at specific intervals (benchmarking)
- Fixes for AKA (IMS) authentication

Full release notes: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=104305&release_id=472717
Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=104305&package_id=119322&release_id=472717

This is the occasion to warmly thank all the contributors that participated to this release, with a special thanks to Charles P. Wright from IBM research for a huge set of new features and improvements.

SIPp 1.1 rc6 (IMS) released

Rob Day — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 16:27:46 -0000

SIPp 1.1rc6 has just been release.
Since 1.1rc5, many new features have been added, the most important one being probably the support of Digest/AKA authentication, provided by Dragos Vingarzan (Fokus) and needed for SIP/IMS scenarios. Not to forget recv_timeouts provided by Peter Higginson. PCAP support has been also greatly enhanced with notably the support of audio+video RTP sending. And... finally... win32 support with authentication (AKA or MD5) is back (without pcap play though).
Full release notes: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=445690&group_id=104305
Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=104305&package_id=119322&release_id=445690

SIPp can send audio and video RTP with any codec

Rob Day — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 21:46:27 -0000

Since end December 2005, thanks to Guillaume Teissier, SIPp supports replay of pre-recorde pcap audio streams. It allows you, from an Ethereal trace containing both SIP and RTP, to replay what happened.

Since 2006-06-02, SIPp supports also the replay of audio _and_ video streams, making it a great tool not only for SIP but also for audio and video testing.

Download:
http://sipp.sourceforge.net/snapshots/sipp.cumulus.2006-06-02.tar.gz

Documentation:
http://sipp.sourceforge.net/doc1.1/reference.html#PCAP+Play
http://sipp.sourceforge.net/doc1.1/reference.html#action_exec

Note: this feature is available on Linux systems only. HPUX port is ongoing and Windows port will probably never be available.

SIPp and OpenWengo

Rob Day — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 13:52:03 -0000

Julien Gilli from the OpenWengo community speaks about SIPp on the OpenWengo blog (http://blog.openwengo.org/index.php?/archives/2006/03/30.html).
OpenWengo is sponsored by Neuf Cegetel (http://www.groupeneufcegetel.fr/html/en/Home/Home.html), and the community is developing a GPL licensed SIP audio+video softphone and multi-protocol instant messaging client.
Two Open Source projects that have been made to meet!

SIPp 1.1rc5 released

Rob Day — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 23:52:46 -0000

Here is a new release of SIPp with many additions/bug fixes compared to 1.1rc4.
Thanks to the many of you that participated to this release.

Between RC4 and RC5:
- IPv6 support for pcapplay feature
- Support of AMD64 processors
- Fixed issues when re-using call variables from regexp
- Fixed potential traffic spikes
- Added several changes suggested by Peter Higginson
- Fixed media_ip format in SDP for IPv6 case
- Add a new parameter : max_reconnec: it allows SIPp to try to reconnect after loosing TCP or TLS
connection
- Server can listen different IP address (on the same machine) and client can communicate to
different servers (with different IP address) - Provided by Michel de Boer.
- Fixed a bug where defense messages are sent without using TLS when TLS transport is in use
- Fix issue with RTP threads, all threads were using the same port information
- Remove libnet dependency to build sipp with rtp play support
- Fixed a case with DIGEST authentication failure
- Fixed several issues towards strict record routing - provided by Enrico Hartung.
- Fixed authentication algorithm value that was a quoted-string
- Allow nop operation even if SIPp is not compiled with pcapplay
- Increased max length of CSV files line from 256 to 1024.
- Fixed a problem where SIPp could go in a recusrsive loop
- Added dynamic modification of media port number in IPv4 - in case of reINVITE

SIPp 1.1rc4 with RTP play available

Rob Day — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 13:12:23 -0000

SIPp 1.1rc4 brings RTP play capabilities. SIPp is a free Open Source test tool / traffic generator for the SIP protocol. The project is very active and is largely used in the SIP community.

The new pcap play feature (contributed by Guillaume Teissier) allows to send RTP streams and RFC2833 DTMFs along with the SIP traffic. This greatly widen the scope of SIPp and allows SIP compatible equipment provider to test their implementation better than ever. For free.

An example of a SIP scenario with RTP play is available here: http://sipp.sourceforge.net/doc1.1/reference.html#UAC+with+media
SIPp's project homepage is: http://sipp.sourceforge.net/
SIPp sources (for HPUX/Linux) or Windows executable can be downloaded from: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=104305&package_id=119322

SIPp 1.1rc4 released

Rob Day — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 13:48:42 -0000

From RC3 to RC4:
- New pcap play feature (to send RTP streams and RFC2833 DTMFs) - provided by Guillaume Teissier from FT R&D. For Linux only for now. Please read:

http://sipp.sourceforge.net/doc1.1/reference.html#pcapplay
http://sipp.sourceforge.net/doc1.1/reference.html#UAC+with+media
http://sipp.sourceforge.net/doc1.1/reference.html#nop
http://sipp.sourceforge.net/doc1.1/reference.html#action_exec
- Return of Windows/Cygwin version
- New "nop" command to execute actions only
- Fixed multi-socket mode in UDP that was broken since 2005-02-25
- Fixed bug for offset keyword as well as add negative offset support (+ and - keywords) - provided by Peter Higginson.
- Count unexpected BYE and CANCEL as being unexpected.
- Fixed for bad CSeq in automatic CANCEL (bug 1313890) - Provided by Lee Ballard.
- Fixed default scenarios to accept 180 or 183 (bug 1313881) - Provided by Lee Ballard.
- Fixed rejection of out of cseq method order responses by extending Venkatesh earlier enhancement - reported by Scott Smith.
- Fixed regression compared to sipp 1.0 where call-id headers where not obliged to be the first header - concerns only 3PCC.
- Change in LICENSE.txt to include send_packets.c and send_packets.h specific copyright notice

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