He does have a good point!
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Mountifield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 1:04 AM Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Re: regexten > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Douglas Garstang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A few days ago I didn't realise that the phones only registered to one > > Asterisk box. If I did, I wouldn't have spent hours today trying to > > get something working. > > I would have thought that it was a function of the phone how many > servers it could register with, not a limitation of Asterisk. > > There are phones that can have more than one "presence" (line). I have > never played with one, but I wonder if it is possible to get one to > register as the same extensions number on two different servers. > > > Is this really the best pure Asterisk HA solution that's out there > > right now? I think it needs a little work. > > I've been watching your trials and tribulations, and I wonder how often > you are expecting an Asterisk box to go down? I have some Asterisk boxes > and other Linux boxes with 200-300 days uptime. > > If you have your phones register on a 2-min interval, then provided > Asterisk keeps running for (2min / 0.001%) = 139 days or more, then > you have "five-nines" (99.999%) availability. > > And don't forget that if the phones re-register at 2-min intervals > randomly spread, the AVERAGE downtime after a failure would only be one > minute. > > It then becomes a question of whether it is cost-effective to strive for > even better than that. > > Cheers > Tony > -- > Tony Mountifield > Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.softins.co.uk > Play: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://tony.mountifield.org > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
