[Serdev] Concept for a SIP cluster implementation

Jan Janak jan at iptel.org
Thu Sep 29 10:57:53 UTC 2005


On 28-09-2005 12:09, Jiri Kuthan wrote:
> At 08:44 AM 9/28/2005, Greger V. Teigre wrote:
> >>I don't want to use SRV, not only because of the NAT problem but also because most of the SRV implementations in UACs I've seen so far are broken, if implemented at all.
> >>
> >>So each edge proxy will be set up with a hot-standby proxy for IP failover, so there's no need for a failover mechanism in the UAC (to be as much independent from it as possible).
> >
> >And back to one of my favorite topics: Avoid idle hardware.  Andreas, you talked about either linux ha or quagga and bgp as failover mechanisms.  Is there a way to combine a hot and a standby server in the same physical server (without vmware/xen)?
> 
> I am not sure that's what anyone would like -- host failures happen too,
> e.g., harddisks happen to go.

  Yes, but they are marginal, compared to software/admin failures.

   Jan.




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