[asterisk-users] Load balancing Asterisk.

[Alex Balashov]

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?

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