[Asterisk-Users] 7960 backup proxy registration

[Rich Adamson]

I'm no where near an expert (or even very knowledgable on some of this stuff),
but a fair number of machines (regardless of whether its a 7960 or whatever)
will not fail over to secondary/backup gateways unless the primary is totally
non-responsive. That usually means if the proxy responds with even an icmp
port unreachable, it is still responding and the phone won't fail over to the
backup. To validate, I'd suggest disconnecting the primary proxy to see if the
phone then registers with other servers.

Also, the v4.4 release notes for Open Caveats says... "CSCea15061: Outbound
Proxy reREGISTER fails due to incorret logic". The Resolved Caveats tend to
suggest that some related problems were fixed in v4.4, so this must have been
an issue with previous releases.

> -----Original Message-----
> I'm sorry to ask this question, but I thought I'd rather ask it here before
> messing up with cisco.
> Is anybody running cisco 7960 in redundant configuration?
> I mean I want the phone to be registered with both primary and
> backup proxy (asterisks) so that service continues to work in case of
> primary
> proxy failure. I've set in SIPDefault.cnt:
> 
> proxy1_address: 192.168.1.10
> proxy1_port: 5060
> proxy_backup: 192.168.1.12
> proxy_backup_port: 5060
> 
> The problem is that 7960 registers all the configured lines with
> primary proxy, but the line 1 only with backup proxy. It's not about
> registration
> failure. The phone doesn't even try to register other 5 lines. As a result
> if the primary
> proxy fails incoming calls work for the line 1 only.
> Has anybody managed to register all the lines with backup proxy?
> I'm running software 4.4, the last version before digital signature was
> introduced. Should I upgrade? Or may be I'm missing something in
> configuration?