[Kamailio-Users] carrierroute prioritize gateways

[Juan Asencio]

Henning Westerholt wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 January 2009, Juan Asencio wrote:
>   
>> I found this in a post that I include at the end of this message, but
>> the part that I want to ask about is this one:
>>
>> "You can put all the carriers under the same table and prioritize the
>> gateway based on domains.  Like tis you don't need to hardcode
>> anything in the config file"
>>
>> If I do this, do I need to prioritize the gateways on the subscriber
>> table and if is there, how do I do it for the domain, when it is only a
>> cr_preferred_carrier field?
>>     
>
> Hi Juan,
>
> you don't need to combine all carriers together. If you want to priorize over 
> different carriers, then i'd suggest you also use them in cr. For example 
> something like this:
>
> - carrier premium; domain 0, 1, 2; GWs a1, a2, a3, b1, b2, b3..
> - carrier standard; domain 0, 1, 2; GWs A1, A2, A3, B1, B2, B3..
>
> Then you could use different domains to implement your failover over the 
> different GWs. And also of course do your prefix matching to route your calls 
> to the best GW.
>
> If you want to use only one carrier, then you also could just load the domain 
> with DB avpops from some table, and just give the AVP to the cr_route 
> function. You don't need to use the cr_user_carrier function, this is 
> provided mainly for convinience and backward compatiblity.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Henning
>   
Hi again Henning,

So to do the failover over the different gw's, has to be done on the 
configuration file? As [fail route xx]..

Cheers,

Juan.-