[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Dial Failover

[Patrick]

On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 06:51 -0600, burke at tailorhosting.com wrote:
> Your other option is to setup the OpenSER boxes in a truly redundant
> configuration using Linux HA (www.linux-ha.org). That way you setup all
> your PSTN calls to forward to one shared virtual IP between the boxes. One
> of the boxes is the Master, the other is the Slave. There is a heartbeat
> between the boxes that goes at a configurable rate. If the Master fails
> then the Slave will take over and it can even be configured for sub-second
> failover. I think there is a article on voip-info.org about this, but
> don't have time to look it up.

Not attempting to hijack the thread but does OpenSER/Linux-HA support
stateful failover? If not wouldn't you be better off without the virtual
IP address and phones that support a secondary proxy so the phone
switches over the moment it detects that the primary is down?

Regards,
Patrick