Using an external load balancer from Cisco, Foundry or others. Not sure how well that would work unless the box understands the sip protocol, however. Suspicion says it would be a nightmare, but really have never tried it.
------------------------ > How do you balance the number of active connections per server? > > Cheers, > Rich > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:asterisk-users- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nicholas Bachmann > > Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 9:41 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk on 64bit ? > > > > WipeOut wrote: > > > > > Hans-Henrik Andresen wrote: > > > > > >> Hi, > > >> > > >> I'm about to set up a asterisk for 5000 users, and the customer had a > > >> 64bit > > > > > [...] > > > > >> The system is suposed to scale to 15000 users. > > > > > > I seriously doubt 1 server will handle that type of load (unless you > > > throw about 15 processors in it).. > > > > > > My advice would be to setup 1 server per 1000 users (working on appox > > > 10 to 1 ratio of active calls) then setup IAX trunks between the > > > servers and the PSTN gateways.. > > > > Better yet, how about a nice load balancer? If you put your SIP > > registrations in a database that all the servers can share, you'll have > > no problems when a server goes down. > > > > > This way if a server fails then you only have 1000 users down and not > > > the whole company.. > > > > This way is a server fails you've only lost the calls that are going > > through it and nothing else. > > > > Nick > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ---------------End of Original Message----------------- _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
