[Asterisk-Users] cmd SIPRedirect for loadbalancing

[Simon Woodhead]

Hi folks,

I've just been reading about the above command and wonder if anyone has 
made use of it for load-balancing or if doing so would be completely 
inappropriate!?

I'm thinking of the scenario where there are a number of Asterisk 
gateways and incoming SIP traffic. From what I've read, with a box in 
front receiving all incoming traffic the SIPRedirect command could be 
used to redirect traffic to one of the gateways, perhaps with an AGI to 
manage the load balancing and registration to handle failover. 
Conventional wisdom suggests using SER for this but I wonder if a pure 
Asterisk deployment is now possible/viable or sensible?

Secondly, with the gateways themselves sharing a Realtime database could 
a client registered with one, deliver calls to another or is this not 
yet fully supported?

Thanks in advance,
Simon