[Asterisk-biz] VoIP recording

[Ron Arts]

trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 11:23 -0500, Henri Herscher wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>For those of you interested, there is an open source project that does
>>VoIP recording, database CDR storage and web retrieval 
>>http://www.oreka.org
>>It supports raw RTP, SIP and Cisco Skinny (SCCP) by packet sniffing
>>and runs on both Linux and Windows.
>>
>>Interesting if you don't want to have asterisk manage the call
>>recording itself (e.g box has high load, want to make it more
>>reliable).
>>
> 
> 
> You may make the calls more reliable, but I would argue that you would
> make the recordings less reliable.  It doesnt take much to drop a packet
> here and there.  While that can happen with the asterisk box itself,
> sniffers often miss more packets than applications.  
> 
>

What we do, is configure a mirroring port on the network switch.
Such a port exactly mirrors the port that is connected to the asterisk box.
If you have enough CPU power on the listening box, you won't miss
a single packet.

Ron

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