[asterisk-users] Codec Negotiation

[Douglas Garstang]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Capouch [mailto:brianc at palaver.net]
> Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 11:33 AM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Codec Negotiation
> 
> 
> Douglas Garstang wrote:
> > Can't put it in a realtime database. We have multiple 
> Asterisk boxes in a cluster, and it's a well known fact that 
> multiple Asterisk boxes using realime cannot query a common 
> MySQL database. Sounds crazy, but true.
> > 
> 
> You spread some amazing "well-known facts" on this list.  As usual 
> salted with your typical choice of words that implies that 
> Asterisk has 
> "crazy" flaws that no sane programmer would countenance.
> 
> I have a dozen or more Asterisk boxes that all query the exact same 
> Realtime database.  The setup works fine, and the "time to 
> deploy" a new 
> station with very elaborate functionality is reduced to minutes.  The 
> ability to rearrange behaviors on the fly is also a great feature.  I 
> love ARA.
> 
> I use Postgres and not MySQL, but I can't believe that the 
> choice is SQL 
> engine would make a difference.
> 
> I think you confuse the requirements of your deployment 
> scenario, which 
> a few minutes ago on this list you yourself characterized as 
> "ridiculous," with underlying common features of Asterisk used in 
> quotidian circumstances.

Would you like me to dig up the posts from Keving Fleming stating that this is known not to work Brian?