[asterisk-users] Multiple Asterisk Sessions on same machine

[Alex Balashov]

On 07/19/2011 02:07 PM, Michael wrote:

> We would like Asterisk to listen on port 5060 and on an additional
> port.

Out of sheer curiosity, what is the motive?

> From what we read online, it's not really possible, so is it
> possible to install a separate instance of Asterisk on the same
> machine (without using Vmware or such) and set the 2nd instance to
> listen on another port?

It is possible, in principle, but definitely not convenient or easy to 
administer.  If you compile from source, you can probably quite far 
using the '--prefix' option to the autoconf 'configure' script, or 
various more specific prefix options it may offer, to accomplish this 
end.  You'd have to make sure all the data subdirectories in /var end 
up going in a different place, etc., and perhaps modify the init 
scripts to put lock files in different places.

It's possible, but it's not easy.  Asterisk's internal config file 
structure, i.e. in the sample configs, definitely assumes a single, 
global instance.

Have you thought about chroot as a possible solution to this?

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