[Asterisk-Users] Re: regexten

[Gabriel Afana]

He does have a good point!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Mountifield" <tony at softins.clara.co.uk>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 1:04 AM
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Re: regexten


> In article <645FEC31A18FE54A8721500CDD55A7B602C1538F at mail.oneeighty.com>,
> Douglas Garstang <dgarstang at oneeighty.com> wrote:
> > A few days ago I didn't realise that the phones only registered to one
> > Asterisk box. If I did, I wouldn't have spent hours today trying to
> > get something working.
> 
> I would have thought that it was a function of the phone how many
> servers it could register with, not a limitation of Asterisk.
> 
> There are phones that can have more than one "presence" (line). I have
> never played with one, but I wonder if it is possible to get one to
> register as the same extensions number on two different servers.
> 
> > Is this really the best pure Asterisk HA solution that's out there
> > right now? I think it needs a little work.
> 
> I've been watching your trials and tribulations, and I wonder how often
> you are expecting an Asterisk box to go down? I have some Asterisk boxes
> and other Linux boxes with 200-300 days uptime.
> 
> If you have your phones register on a 2-min interval, then provided
> Asterisk keeps running for (2min / 0.001%) = 139 days or more, then
> you have "five-nines" (99.999%) availability.
> 
> And don't forget that if the phones re-register at 2-min intervals
> randomly spread, the AVERAGE downtime after a failure would only be one
> minute.
> 
> It then becomes a question of whether it is cost-effective to strive for
> even better than that.
> 
> Cheers
> Tony
> -- 
> Tony Mountifield
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