> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gabriel Afana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 1:35 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: regexten
> 
> 
> 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.

It's a function of both. When the phone sucessfully registers with an Asterisk 
system, it stops. The phone therefore only registers with a single Asterisk 
system, and the same problem still remains. The phone is only registered to one 
Asterisk system. If that Asterisk system goes down, none of the phones 
registered to that system can receive calls. However, if by some magic the 
phone _could_ send another registration, Asterisk would accept it. I've yet to 
see a phone however, that will send another registration if the first suceeds. 
Why would it?


> > 
> > 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.

It doesn't matter how often I expect them to go down. You have to plan for the 
worst. People are used to say, being unable to access a web page for a few 
minutes. Heck, they might not even notice. However, when someone's phone system 
goes down, you can bet your bottom dollar that they will notice pretty damn 
fast, and they expect it to always be working.


> > 
> > 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
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