Hello,
I have a question about LCR which I have been unable to solve. I have 4 upstream carrier gateways owned by 2 carriers. Each carrier provides a primary and secondary gateway for load balancing purposes. On a 5XX error I am trying to send the same call to the other carrier. If both carriers reject the call with 5XX, I allow the response to go downstream to my asterisk server. The issue I am running into is that in a scenario where both my carriers respond with a 5XX, I end up presenting the same call to all 4 gateways. I would like to present the call to one gateway on each carrier and not try the same carriers second gateway for the same call. Here is what is happening now:

ASTERISK --> INVITE --> KAMAILIO
INVITE --> CARRIER A/GATEWAY 1 <-- 5XX Error
INVITE --> CARRIER A/GATEWAY 2 <-- 5XX Error
INVITE --> CARRIER B/GATEWAY 1 <-- 5XX Error
INVITE --> CARRIER B/GATEWAY 2 <-- 5XX Error
KAMAILIO --> 5XX Error --> ASTERISK

OR any combination of the above... i.e.

ASTERISK --> INVITE --> KAMAILIO
INVITE --> CARRIER A/GATEWAY 1 <-- 5XX Error
INVITE --> CARRIER B/GATEWAY 2 <-- 5XX Error
INVITE --> CARRIER B/GATEWAY 1 <-- 5XX Error
INVITE --> CARRIER A/GATEWAY 2 <-- 5XX Error
KAMAILIO --> 5XX Error --> ASTERISK

What I want to happen is:

ASTERISK --> INVITE --> KAMAILIO
INVITE --> CARRIER A/GATEWAY 1 or 2 <-- 5XX Error
INVITE --> CARRIER B/GATEWAY 1 or 2 <-- 5XX Error
KAMAILIO --> 5XX Error --> ASTERISK

I tried dealing with the issue using some flags on the gateway, but i couldn't get the logic to work properly. Here is the path I was heading down, but my plan fell apart after some testing.

CARRIER A has a gateway flag of "1"
CARRIER B has a gateway flag of "2"

failure_route[1]{
       $var(gw_flag) = $avp(i:712);

        while(next_gw()){
            if($var(gw_flag) != $avp(i:712)){
                xlog("L_INFO","Found an LCR destination which is different than current, routing. ($ci)");
                t_on_reply("1");
                t_on_failure("1");
                t_relay();
                exit;
            }else{
                xlog("L_INFO","The next destination in LCR has the same AVP flag, skipping. ($ci)");
            }
        }

        # let the reply go upstram - it is the default action
        xlog("L_ERR", "No Next Gateway - M=$rm RURI=$ru F=$fu T=$tu IP=$si ID=$ci\n");
        exit;
}

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Geoff