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Stephen Coles wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal">I need to add multiple internet lines to my
asterisk setup
[as my internet connects are slow (DSL distance problem) and I don't
want to
pay for a lease line] with load balancing between the lines - googling
and
there’s no easy/cheap way to do this. Redundancy\failover seems
just as hard. So I had some ideas and just wanted to share them, maybe
some people will like them and there get work upon and find their way
into
asterisk, just be binned or maybe asterisk can do this already [if it
can
sorry]. But here goes:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">To the iax2.conf I would add:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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priority (what
order to use the context in)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
calls_out (number
of call going out allow on this context - before the next group context
is
used)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
calls_total (total
number of calls in and out allow on this context - before the next
group
context is used)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
loadbalance (true
or false - do i distribute the calls evenly between the group)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
gateway
(what
IP address to send the calls out on)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
externip (needed
if behind a NAT)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
localnet (needed
if behind a NAT)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">then you could dial using:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Dial(IAX2/GROUP:{first
part of context to match}/22122) <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">e.g.:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> [outbound
- voip minutes]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> priority
= 1<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> loadbalance
= yes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> gateway
= 192.168.16.5<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> [outbound
- telstar]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> priority
= 2<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> loadbalance
= yes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> gateway
= 192.168.16.6<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> [outbound
- voip hip]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> priority
= 3<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> loadbalance
= yes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> gateway
= 192.168.16.7<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">then dial using:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Dial(IAX2/GROUP:outbound/22122)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">chan_iax2 would work out that I wanted to use a
group and
use any context that started outbound so any of the 3 contexts above
would be
valid routes. The routes would be ordered by priority, so chan_iax2
would
use voip minutes first, telstar second and voip hip third. Because
I’m using the loadbalance option it will spread the traffic evenly
across
the 3 connections. So if voip minutes current has 2 calls on, telstar
has
1 call on and voip hip has 5 calls on. A new call would go out on
telstar
as this has the least amount of calls.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">this could be expanded upon to do failover by
adding a
checkroute to each context above asterisk can every X minutes check
that the
route is still valid and if it isn't mark it so it isn't used.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If a call was current in progress and the
connection went
down, if all 3 contexts were using the same TISP you could reroute the
call
(using the unique channel id) over another outbound context to the same
TISP
match up the unique call id and the call wouldn't be dropped - this
would be
easy to do for the IAX than the SIP protocol because its owned by
asterisk. The problem with doing this for the sip protocol is that
it’s a standard and would require a RFC (Request for Comments).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">To make this easier to develop you could you
could add it to
IAX3 - so you could ship asterisk and allow the user to use IAX2 or the
new
EXPERIMENTAL IAX3 (like you do with the new faster dial plan pattern
matching
routine that you need to turn on in extension.conf)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: green;">Stephen
Coles</span><span
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<br>
Stephen, <br>
<br>
I think i would approach this problem by defining new channel
technology,<br>
This way the load balancer will be able to operate on ANY underlying
tech.<br>
<br>
<br>
Thanks<br>
Vadim<br>
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