[asterisk-users] Load balancing Asterisk.

[Al lists]

Foundry serverIron does support SIP and its ASIC not a linux box Load
balancer like F5,
Refer to Chapter 10 (page 677) of ServerIron manual.
It explains everything in detail.
Also you may need to play with source nat a little bit to make your specific
configuration work, but it should work, at least in theory.


On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Alex Balashov
<abalashov at evaristesys.com>wrote:

> SIP wrote:
>
> > As for the current F5 SIP load balancer, we tried it a few years back
> > and it was a dismal failure. It wanted to do cookie-based SIP load
> > balancing and only worked with certain SIP proxies.
>
> I assume that is because there is no way RFC-supported way to insert a
> cookie into a SIP session that persists throughout the entire exchange
> with a client, including all in-dialog requests, subsequent sessions, etc?
>
> The only way I know of to make a cookie stick on the UAC side is to put
> an LR parameter into the route set, but that will only last within a
> dialog.
>
> So, I'm assuming certain SIP proxies had proprietary ways of getting
> around that in order to work with F5?
>
> --
> Alex Balashov
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