[Asterisk-Users] Failover Registration

[Rich Adamson]

Script Head wrote:
> You can simply put then in order in your dial plan:
> 
> exten => _1NXXNXXXXXX,1,Dial(SIP/${EXTEN}@carrier1}
> exten => _1NXXNXXXXXX,2,Dial(SIP/${EXTEN}@carrier2}
> 
> and so on. if carrier1 returns an error, * will dial out using carrier2.
> 
> SciptHead
> 
> 
> On 12/2/05, *Max Clark* <max at clarksys.com <mailto:max at clarksys.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi all,
> 
>     I would like to have two asterisk servers in a "cluster". From what I
>     understand using a mysql database I can store all of my peer/user
>     information in the db and share this between servers. I can then
>     take my
>     polycom phone and register it to both of the asterisk servers at the
>     same time - so if one were to go offline traffic would be redirected to
>     the second.
> 
>     This works in theory for the end user - but how do I provide redundancy
>     with my upstream providers? I.e. how do I fail over my registration to
>     an upstream sip provider?
> 
>     Thanks in advance,
>     Max

Just be aware there can be lots of different reasons for calls not be 
processed that will not be detected and handled with the above.