The easiest place to do this is at the point you send the calls to FreeSWITCH. How are the calls coming in?
Mike On Dec 2, 2009, at 7:49 PM, Tim Uckun wrote: > I have read some of the archived emails about HA, loadbalancing, > failover etc and I am still a bit confused about how I could set up > some sort of resiliency with freeswitch. > > My situation is much less complex than the scenarios people were > talking about and I hoping the solution is similarly much less > complex. > > I have two machines. Both will run freeswitch and also an IVR > application with local databases. I will take care of the database, > application and configuration synchronization between the two > machines. Ideally the calls would be load balanced between the > machines and if any application falls down then the calls should go to > the other machine. Same if I take a machine down for whatever reason. > > If a machine goes down I am willing to "lose" those people who were > making a call at the time. I do have a flag in the application which > will stop answering the calls while processing the existing calls for > a graceful shutdown and hopefully the load balancer would shuttle the > calls to the other machine while this is happening. > > At this stage everything is done via SIP. > > My questions are... > > Do I have to have a sip proxy? If the answer is yes it seems like I > have to set up two sip proxies so I don't have another single point of > failure. Can I load the sip proxies on the same machine? Do I need two > more machines? > > If I take load balancing out of the picture would it be possible to do > a simple linux HA or a windows built in ip failover solution? Would a > simple IP failover work over UDP or would I have to use IAX and tcp/ip > ? > > Is it better to go the virtualization route? > > Sorry if these are dumb questions. I am just trying to get my head > wrapped around this. I don't need five nines (although that would be > awesome), I just want a reasonable degree of assurance that my app can > keep taking calls in case something weird happens. _______________________________________________ FreeSWITCH-users mailing list FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users http://www.freeswitch.org