[Serusers] Is there an expected release date for ser-0.8.15??

[Jiri Kuthan]

At 05:06 AM 10/29/2004, Java Rockx wrote:
>Juha,
>
>Thanks for the comment.
>
>I don't disagree with anything you've said. The decision on UDP was based on
>the fact that we're looking at a massive deployment on a VPN so TLS never
>needed to be addressed.

my personal choice has been to implement some of the FIFO functions to
SIP request processing to gain all transport and security checkes but 
it appears that I am the only to like it.


>NOTE: Massive = n > 500000+ subscribers
>
>Add to this the fact that it would be clunky to call t_replicate() for a
>potentially varying number of sip proxies and we came to the conclusion that a
>multicast version of t_replicate() will do the trick for replicating REGISTER
>messages to all the sip proxies on the VPN.
>
>Thus we arrived at the UDP decision. If there are better ways to achieve
>99.999% uptime while having independent ser, serweb, and sems farms the please
>share. I'd love to validate our work or shoot holes in it before it goes
>primetime.

a problem is lack of reliability in multicast.

-jiri