[sr-dev] [Kamailio-Users] ratelimit enhancements

Henning Westerholt henning.westerholt at 1und1.de
Mon Jan 25 15:44:51 CET 2010


On Monday 25 January 2010, Ovidiu Sas wrote:
> I'm in favor of keeping this module as a db only module.  Combining
> both init methods (param and db config) is messy due to the current
> module initialization (the shm mem is not available during the param
> parsing). For small/embedded systems db_text is always a viable alternative.

Hello Ovidiu,

i did not reviewed the code yet, but some people also like to run their 
balancers without a database to avoid this additional complexity. 

> In the future, the ratelimit module should become obsolete and only
> pipelimit should be maintained.

Sure, if the functionality that most people use in ratelimit is also available 
there, it makes no sense to keep both.

> Also, I'm in favor of keeping the new module as simple as possible and
> perform any fancy operations in the config file (like regex to pv via
> textops).

I agree, this should be all done in the configuration, its much easier to 
maintain.

Cheers,

Henning



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