> -----Original Message----- > From: Aaron Daniel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 9:24 AM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Load balance Asterisk servers? > > > Incorrect :) IAX2 most definitely does support regcontext. > > Also, I think what he means is the phone specific information must be > exactly the same from system to system or the failover won't be as > seamless as you expect. A lot of phones support some sort of SRV > records, so in the event of a failure, the phones will automatically > find the next available server. The other option there is to > set up an > HA environment so the failover is even transparent to the phones, they > just start talking to the new IP address immediately. > > Another thought, in any failover situation, if you have any sort of > automated failover, you must make sure phones that need specific > features fail to the same server (i.e. hinting and such) as those > features don't work cross server.
To put things in perspective, one could consider that BLF is not a critical function, and in a failover situation, if call processing continues, but your BLF function is degraded (until the phones resubscribe), then that might be acceptable. Doug. _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
