[Kamailio-Users] [LCR] About ping

[Juha Heinanen]

Iñaki Baz Castillo writes:

 > > in a typical case, if ping interval is, say, 10 seconds, and fr_timer, say
 > > 3 seconds, i fail to see any big advantage in pinging the gws provided
 > > that if fr_timer fires, there is a possibility to mark the gw as being
 > > dead.
 > 
 > True, but note that default fr_timer is 30 seconds :)

when i forward a request to a gw, i set fr_timer to 3 sec.

 > > i'll try to implement this as an alternative/complement for the pinging
 > > for the next release.
 > 
 > That's great, thanks a lot.

how about waking a gw up from death?  there could be a timestamp telling
when a gw died and then a module parameter telling how long to wait
before the gw is tried again.  that way there would be no need for a
timer process.

-- juha