Doug, I actually see this as a pretty logical way to solve the problem. Please keep us posted if you have any luck sorting out running multiple instances, or mail me off-list if no one else is interested.
Thanks, On 9/25/06 1:52 PM, "Douglas Garstang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Brian Rogan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 12:40 PM >> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion >> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Running Multiple Instances of Asterisk >> >> >> Doug, >> >> Why do you want to do this to begin with? I think the best >> solution is > Because we are trying to build a hosted IPT solution, not an enterprise > solution. > >> to use the realtime stuff, and build your own management tools, which >> would allow you to do this (you could drastically cut the complexity >> with the right tools). Even if you could run them together, how >> would you put everything on the appropriate ports? How would you deal >> with multiple instances accessing hardware? > > Realtime is resource intensive, requiring many queries to perform simple > lookups. We can easily create multiple virtual IP address, and since each > virtual IP address can bind to port 5060, each phone can register with > domain.com:5060 without a problem. We don't need multiple instances to access > hardware as this is a SIP only solution. Our PSTN access is via external > Audiocodes gateways, not via Digium T1 cards. > > The dial plan was not able to handle the complexity we needed (for example the > MySQL() application command could not do nested queries), and so right now, we > have a 2000 line python script and several very complex MySQL stored > procedures in order to fulfull our requirements. > >> >> I'm not convinced that maintaining the config files, binaries >> and other >> components of multiple asterisk's is easier than just building better >> tools to configure one. > > I am. I look at our configuration which is currently for one customer, and > there's already several dozen contexts in order to cover a lot of complexity. > Multiply that by a couple of hundred, and I won't want to be administering it! > >> >> You could also try User-Mode-Linux or something like that. > > I was going to give v-servers a try. There's a guide at: > http://www.telephreak.org/papers/vpa/ > _______________________________________________ > --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 -- James Texter _______________________________________________ --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