[Serusers] About a SIP load balancing document involving SER

[Victor Pascual Ávila]

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Jesus Rodriguez <jesusr at voztele.com> wrote:
> Keeping NAT outside of the scope, you can have a load balancer in
> "transparent" mode (do not add VIA or Record-Route) so the UAC send
> the requests to the LB, the LB to the proxy and the proxy send back
> the response directly to the UAC. What's wrong on this?.

The issue here is the following: if the 'sent-by' contains an IP that
differs from the real source address, a 'received' is inserted and
used when sending back the response. Hence, the LB receives the
response anyway :-)

Cheers,
-- 
Victor Pascual Ávila