[Asterisk-Users] load balancing 20 asterisk servers

[Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk]

>> I beleive what you're looking for is a scalable SIP proxy, like SER :)
>> That way, all clients registers to SER and SER redirects the caller to
>> one of the asterisk boxes. Search the wiki at voip-info.org for
>> "asterisk at large" :)
>
>     Yes, that is one of the many pages I've read. But we still have a
> problem. Take a look at this image to get a better idea of my "end 
> goal".
>
>     http://drmac.homeunix.net/images/load_balancer.jpg

You won't need the second balancer. SER can do that.

> For growth, all you do is add more SER and more Asterisk boxes.

Are you sure one SER box won't be sufficient?

> But if Asterisk won't work correctly with the load balancing due to 
> packet
> movement, then I need to approach this differently.

perhaps setting up a second SER box for failover will do? just failover 
with heartbeat or something...

roy