[Users] failover and presence/IM service

jimmy way jimway71 at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 21 21:21:01 CEST 2005


Hi Daniel-Constantin,

   So, that means if I want to make SIP/SIMPLE
working(providing presence/IM/file transfer service),
I need only pa module on server. And, can you tell me
when will you release stable version of pa module in
your sechedule?


Regards,
Jimway  

--- Daniel-Constantin Mierla <daniel at voice-system.ro>
wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> On 06/21/05 13:34, jimmy way wrote:
> 
> >Hi all,
> >   1st question is does openser support Failover
> and
> >load balance of openser server. That means we can
> use
> >two or more openser server to handle the SIP
> >request/response
> >
> there is a module named "dispatcher" that can be
> used to distribute the 
> traffic. It does static distribution, does not count
> the load of a server.
> 
> > and use hot backup. How to do that
> >  
> >
> There is no exlicit support for hot backup in
> openser/ser. You have to 
> use third-party products to be able to switch
> between the active and 
> backup servers. The two servers can be kept
> synchronized using 
> t_replicate().
> 
> >   2nd question is that I find openser support both
> >Jabber and SIMPLE.
> >
> No, it does not support Jabber/XMPP, just SIP and
> SIMPLE. It includes a 
> Jabber-to-SIMPLE gateway which is able to translate
> from a protocol to 
> another. The presence does not work, because
> presence support in 
> openser/ser (pa module) in under heavy development
> and not released as 
> stable. Also, the jabber module (the
> Jabber-to-SIMPLE gateway) was not 
> tested with latest Jabber servers.
> 
> I have started long time ago to write a pure
> SIMPLE-to-XMPP gateway 
> which will allow on-the-fly gatewaying, without
> authentication as it is 
> now (the authentication is required so users can
> provide ICQ/MSN/AIM 
> accounts to get from SIMPLE to that IM network via
> Jaber). If someone 
> wants to take over, I can give some help at the
> beginning.
> 
> > It look like Jabber is stable and
> >support and many people from open source world,
> many
> >plus GOOGLE.
> >
> Jabber is also a bit older than SIMPLE and it was
> designed for instant 
> messaging and presence.
> 
> > But SIMPLE is still unstable.
> >
> SIMPLE is just an extension for SIP to enable
> instant messaging and 
> presence, so it carries the design of VoIP.
> 
> > I want to
> >use Jabber for providing presence/IM service, plus
> >file transfer service.(I want to using reSIProcate
> >stack from sipfoundry as client's stack) Does
> openser
> >support that all?
> >  
> >
> OpenSER can interwork with any SIP-compliant entity
> 
> >And which is better, Jabber or SIMPLE?
> >  
> >
> With VoIP gaining more and more supporters, SIMPLE
> may be a winning 
> card, but I think will take some time to have mature
> implementations at 
> least for presence. As I see things evolving at
> IETF, the format to 
> carry presence information is going to be unified
> (if not yet) and 
> SIP/SIMPLE or XMPP will be carrier protocols. Also,
> XMPP started to 
> develop extensions for VoIP :) ...
> 
> Regards,
> Daniel
> 
> >
> >Regards,
> >Jimway 
> >
> >
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