[Serusers] Carrier-grade framework for SER

[Greger V. Teigre]

Juha Heinanen wrote:
> Greger V. Teigre writes:
>
>> *** We all have this issue.  It is my understanding that
>> t_replicate: a) uses SIP messages b) uses a best-effort algorithm
>> (haven't looked at the code...) c) can be used between several
>> servers, but when you introduce a new server, you need to change
>> each server's ser.cfg
>
> no you don't if you keep your server ip addresses in database and
> have a fifo command to reload them each time there is a change.  i
> have started coding this, but is not ready yet.

Excellent! Will this code be available through CVS in the near future?

>> My suggestion for a simple solution based on the discussion so far:
>> Extend t_replicate with a guaranteed mode of replication.
>
> this indeed is a good thing to do.

Who is code maintainer for this part??

> somebody mentioned that since ser fifo now has unix domain support, it
> would not be difficult to extend it to tcp support.  that may be true
> atleast for the person who did unix domain support and thus knows the
> code.  i guess fifo tcp support already is on iptel's long to-do list.
>
> what comes to soap, i would prefer a solution that has an abstraction
> layer and backends for both soap and xmlrpc, since not everyone of
> fond of microsoft solutions.

I don't see soap as a microsoft solution, it's a bit bigger than that... ;-)
but I agree with you. It depends on your needs.
g-)