[asterisk-users] Source-IP on Asterisk DRBD/-HA-Cluster wrong

[Alex Balashov]

Thorolf,

In the [general] section of sip.conf, set the 'bindaddr' parameter to 
the cluster IP.  If Asterisk is only bound to the floating interface, it 
will respond only from that source IP.

-- Alex

Thorolf Godawa wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I installed a Linux-HA-cluster with DRBD and Asterisk 1.4 on it.
> 
> Actually it might work quite good, failover etc. works, even if this is
> not a 0-downtime solution, because current calls are dropped and the
> phones not are reachable until they reregister at the Asterisk.
> 
> It "might" work good, because my phones are not able to register at the
> cluster-ip address, because the REGISTER arrives at the cluster-ip,
> while Asterisk responds from the real host-ip of the active cluster-node.
> 
> The registration with the real ip works, but then I can't use any
> failover solution.
> 
> I have already checked several solutions found at
> http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+High+Availability+Solutions
> and some others returned by searching the net, but nothing that helped
> me out.
> 
> I see three possible solutions:
> - is there a parameter in Asterisk to set the source-ip?
> - patching Asterisk to include such a parameter?
> - would be changing the primary ip-address to the "cluster"-ip and
>   changing the "real" host-ip to an alias, a good solution?
> 
> Thanks for any hints in advance,


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