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<DIV>Quick question, you said a lot of your clients are using IAX....what kind of clients are these? Are they running some kind of softphone or are there hardphones that use IAX?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>My main concern with SER is that if I have customers where I need to put * boxes on site, it will cause issues to try to do an IAX trunk between my main facility and the on-site * box. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Is it possible to do a SIP trunk?? I totally imagine yes, but I tried doing this (spent 2 hours) and had one problem after the other (mainly authentication issues). If I can trunk my main servers to on-site customer servers via SIP, I will have no problem running SER!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>- Gabe</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><BR><BR><BR>>Hey Ron,<BR>><BR>> <BR>><BR>>What you are referring to is totally dependant on the phone registration<BR>>time (read: the phone itself [manufacturer]). I have Cisco phone
s that<BR>>re-register in 30 seconds regardless of original registration server<BR>>presence and I have Polycom phones that register every 5 min, only if the<BR>>original registration server is NOT there.<BR>><BR>> <BR>><BR>>I have been fighting this issue but have not come up with a viable solution<BR>>just yet. If I reduce the registration time, to say, 10 seconds, some<BR>>phones will not be able to do this (Polycom). Others, like the Cisco will<BR>>initiate a lot of un-wanted network traffic every 10 seconds.<BR>><BR>> <BR>><BR>>It's not so much an issue of when a server fails and the phone can not make<BR>>outbound calls, the phone will immediately send traffic to a backup proxy if<BR>>a user wants to make a call during the registration cycle and server failure<BR>>as long as the phone has a backup proxy specified. The real issue is when a<BR>>registration server fails, inbound calls to any phone registered on the<BR
>>server will not be processed (maybe voicemail) until the phones re-register<BR>>to another registration server and their route becomes available within the<BR>>cluster again.<BR>><BR>> <BR>><BR>>I have not tried SER, only because a lot of my clients use IAX and this<BR>>network will be complicated enough without having to manage 2 different<BR>>registration systems, SER for SIP and Asterisk for IAX. I will pound this<BR>>issue until I find the answer or realize it just can not be done with<BR>>Asterisk.<BR>><BR>> <BR>><BR>>I am struggling with this but would like suggestions.<BR>><BR>> <BR>><BR>>JR<BR>><BR>> <BR>><BR>> _____ <BR>><BR>>From: Ron McCarthy [mailto:ronmccar@gmail.com] <BR>>Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 5:19 PM<BR>>To: jr.richardson@cox.net<BR>>Subject: Clustering<BR>><BR>> <BR>><BR>>JR,<BR>><BR>>This is Ron, the one sho originally started this thread on the m
ailing list.<BR>><BR>>Ive been keeping up with all the replies, and it seems like you have it<BR>>working, but I hope you can answer a few questions of mine.<BR>><BR>>The phone gets registered to one server, my question is, if you say "kill"<BR>>the server that phone is registered to, would it then automagically attempt<BR>>to re register to on one of the other * boxes, or do you know what would<BR>>happen. <BR>><BR>>I know this can be done, im setting up 3 test boxes this weekend, and am<BR>>going to experment, also with SER involved to handle registratiosn, unless I<BR>>get * to do it all for me in a efficcinet way.<BR>><BR>>Any info on this would be great!<BR>><BR>>Thanks<BR>>Ron<BR>><BR>><BR></DIV>
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