[Kamailio-Users] carrier route vs LCR

[Henning Westerholt]

On Friday 10 April 2009, Juha Heinanen wrote:
>  > I have been looking at the carrier route and LCR. it appears to me that
>  > LCR can be used to handle tariff , i.e,
>  > selecting lowest cost route. while carrier route doesn't have this
>  > capability at all. but carrier route , according to LCR, scales better
>  > than LCR.
>
> what you mean by "according to LCR"?  i'm not familiar with carrier
> route, but i don't see any other scaling limits with LCR except memory
> for lcr and gw entries.
>
> perhaps carrier route does not keep its corresponding entries in memory,
> but fetches them each time from database?

Hi Juha,

no, it also keeps the entries in the memory, it don't do any run-time DB 
operations for normal routing. Perhaps the original poster referred to the 
pre 1.5.0 state, before your refactoring of the LCR code base. I'll see if i 
can update the cr README a bit.

Cheers,

Henning