[asterisk-users] Load balance outgoing calls

[Steve Edwards]

On Tue, 23 Feb 2010, Alejandro Recarey wrote:

> If I use a global variable like
>
> --> IF GLB > 2 GLB = 0
> dial(iax2/isp${GLB}/${EXTEN})
> --> GLB = GLB +1
>
> I believe this could cause a race condition if two calls are sent to the 
> carrier at the same time?

Yes. If that's an issue for your carrier, use the decimal part of 
${UNIQUEID}. It's incremented every time Asterisk creates a channel so 
there would be no race condition.

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Thanks in advance,
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