Appendix A SIP Compliance

RFC 2543 and RFC 3261

Table A-3

SIP Responses (continued)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SIP Response

 

Meaning

Supported?

Cisco SPS Action

 

 

 

 

 

415

Unsupported media

Server refuses to process the request

Yes

Forwards this response.

 

 

 

because the format of the body is not

 

 

 

 

 

supported by the destination endpoint.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

420

Bad extension

Server cannot understand the protocol

Yes

Generates and forwards this

 

 

 

extension indicated in the Require

 

response.

 

 

 

header.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

480

Temporarily

Called party was contacted but is

Yes

Forwards this response. If

 

unavailable

temporarily unavailable.

 

preauthentication is enabled and

 

 

 

 

 

fails, generates this response.

 

 

 

 

 

481

Call leg/transaction

Server ignores the request because it is

Yes

Generates and forwards this

 

does not exist

either a BYE for which there is no

 

response.

 

 

 

matching leg ID or a CANCEL for

 

 

 

 

 

which there is no matching transaction.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

482

Loop detected

Server received a request that includes

 

 

 

 

 

itself in the path.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

483

Too many hops

Server received a request that requires

 

 

 

 

 

more hops than allowed by the

 

 

 

 

 

Max-Forwards header.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

484

Address incomplete

Server received a request that contains

See Cisco SPS

Forwards this response.

 

 

 

an incomplete address.

action

 

 

 

 

 

 

485

Ambiguous

Server received a request that contains

 

 

 

 

 

an ambiguous called-party address. It

 

 

 

 

 

can provide possible alternative

 

 

 

 

 

addresses.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

486

Busy here

Called party was contacted but his or

 

 

 

 

 

her system is unable to take additional

 

 

 

 

 

calls.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

487

Busy here; request

Request was terminated by a BYE or

Yes

 

 

cancelled

 

CANCEL request.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

488

Not acceptable media

An error in handling the request

See Cisco SPS

 

 

 

 

occurred.

action

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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