For connectionless transports such as UDP, RFC 5626 uses STUN Binding Requests over the flow as the keepalive, sent at random intervals of 24 to 29 seconds.

Checked 2026-09-24

Vendor
IETF
Product
SIP
Subsystem
SIP Outbound keepalive
Deployment
any
Region
not restricted
Release range
RFC 5626 (October 2009)
Checked
2026-09-24

Sources

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APA

WarmTransfer. (2026, September 24). SIP OPTIONS pings and trunk keepalives: source note sip-options-keepalive-rfc5626-stun-udp. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/sip-options-keepalive-rfc5626-stun-udp

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-claim-sip-options-keepalive-rfc5626-stun-udp,
  title  = {SIP OPTIONS pings and trunk keepalives: source note sip-options-keepalive-rfc5626-stun-udp},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/sip-options-keepalive-rfc5626-stun-udp},
  note   = {Source note sip-options-keepalive-rfc5626-stun-udp, checked 2026-09-24}
}

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