[OpenSIPS-Users] drouting: varios entries in 'dr_rules' with some "groupid', not possible?

[Bogdan-Andrei Iancu]

Iñaki Baz Castillo wrote:
> 2009/9/15 Bogdan-Andrei Iancu <bogdan at voice-system.ro>:
>   
>> Hi Iñaki,
>>
>> priority applies only to rules that overlap - this can happens only when
>> time selection is used for the rules:
>>
>> Ex: RULE1:  for prefix 1234, all the time,  use GW1, prio =1
>>      RULE2:  for prefix 1234, during weekend, use GW1, prio = 4
>>
>> Here the rules will overlap during the weekend - they both match; in
>> this interval, the highest priority rule will be used.
>>
>> The priority mechanism is used exclusively for this case.
>>     
>
> So in case time selection is null in botrules, priority mechanism
> doesn't matter, right?
> If so, I suggest to explain it in the documentation, as I couldn't
> understand it after several reads :)
>   

Let me tell you a joke: 
  Q: "What do engineers and dogs have in common ? "
  A: "They both have an intelligent eyes/look, but none of them can 
express themselves"

So, I will try to re-work the explanation there.

>
>   
>> The module does not do any rule fallback - once a rule is match, it will
>> use only the destination from the rules and it will not try to re-match
>> a different rule.
>>     
>
> Yes, but if all the gws in a rule (prio 10) fail (so "use_next_gw"
> returns false) then this rule (or its gws) would be automatically
> included in a blacklist, so if then I call again
> "do_routing(SAME_GROUPID)" then the next rule (minor priority) would
> be taken, am I right?
>   
yes, make sense - probably we can add it for 1.7 ....for 1.6 is a bit 
too late.


Best regards,
Bogdan