[OpenSIPS-Users] [OpenSIPS-Devel] [RELEASES] Planing OpenSIPS 1.9.0 major release

[Duane Larson]

Yeah.  What you mention in your email to Ali would work for the scenarios I
mention "if there was a function to add a call to a gateway's resource
(maybe based on the IP address) without calling the load_balance() function"


On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Bogdan-Andrei Iancu <bogdan at opensips.org>wrote:

> **
> Hi Duane,
>
> More or less is the same (forcing a call as load for a destination without
> actually doing LB) - in your case, what is different is the way you
> identify the destination - But if I'm not wrong, using the IP of the
> destination should work in both cases (when call comes form GW with IP X
> and when you force routing to GW with IP X).
>
> Regards,
>
> Bogdan-Andrei Iancu
> OpenSIPS Founder and Developerhttp://www.opensips-solutions.com
>
>
> On 11/05/2012 05:27 PM, Duane Larson wrote:
>
> Ali,
>
>  Just to add to the scenarios when you don't use load balancer but want
> to keep up with load.....
>
>  If you are load balancing to Asterisk servers but you don't use the
> load_balance() function because you want an "attended transfer" or someone
> is call for a "Parked Call".  You want to make sure the call goes to the
> Asterisk server that has the current call for an Attended Transfer or the
> call goes to the Asterisk server that has the parked call.
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Ali Pey <alipey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>>  Not sure if this is the right place to suggest changes/new features. I
>> have a request for a new function for the load_balancer module.
>>
>>  Load_balancer knows how many resources are available for each gateway
>> and keeps track of active calls for each resource to distribute the calls
>> accordingly. This works well if the gateways's calls always go through the
>> load_balancer module. However, this is not always the case.
>>
>>  Let's say I have a number of gateways for termination and I use the
>> load_balancer module to distribute the calls. If there happen to be some
>> outgoing calls from these gateways, load balancer would not know about them
>> and the number of active calls and available resources would be inaccurate.
>>
>> This can be fixed if there was a function to add a call to a gateway's
>> resource (maybe based on the IP address) without calling the load_balance()
>> function.
>>
>>  This functionality can also be used when you are using resources of one
>> of your gateways but outside the load balancer module such as routing a
>> test number to a particular gateway and so on.
>>
>>  Regards,
>> Ali Pey
>>
>>
>>
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