On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:36 PM, li...@grounded.net <li...@grounded.net>wrote:

> > when you ran opensbc IT was the NAT traversal device instead of pfsense
> > is all.
>
> One very big difference is that now I'm using pfsense, which is a firewall.
> The only
> option I seem to have is pfsense in multi wan setup since sipx can only
> have one default
> gateway. Unless of course, I might be able to run multiple sipx boxes in
> sync mode.
>
> > There are two ways. CARP=dedicated interface from pfsense to pfsense.
> Multi-
> > wan (one pfsense box)=has to be configured with "sticky" connections so
> > when a transaction or session starts it stays there until it's terminated
> > or until the box goes away. DNS would be able to "load" balance this with
> > identical priorities.
>
> That would work. I basically want to put my WAN connections to good use by
> balancing.


>
> Only the services unique to that server are gone, whether master or
> > distributed. Registrations will failover. Voicemail (at present) will
> not.
>
> This was never clear to me until now. As I understood it, if the master
> goes, everything
> goes. In reality, if the master goes, everything keeps going, you bring the
> master back up
> and you have control again as well.
>
Pretty much, they are enhancing HA with every version.

>
> > Presently voicemail resides on the server the account is assigned to when
> > it is setup.
>
> I guess that kills my question about running two systems, synched up.
>
> For now for voicemail, yes, but it is a work in progress.

> > CDR and sipxconfig might not be avilable, but HA in its current state
> > mostly means you can send/receive calls non-stop in the use case you
> have.
>
> That's good news at least, it's a very important factor.
>
And it's already there.

>
> > You can have a single machine dedicated to just VM, and make that storage
> > and system as redundant as possible from a hardware perspective..
>
> Is this something which will change in the future?
>
> I'm sure if you look at the roadmap for 4.2, you will see a lot of
forthcoming changes for VM.

> > You can setup your gateway on both servers.
>
> I must have this out of context. I have one sipx box, two firewalls, can
> only put one
> gateway on sipx so need to be looking at the pfsense lb method. Is that
> something you've
> used, does it work well?
>
> Never done it.

> > You can have a server dedicated to siptrunking if you
>
> That just seems to be the most efficient way in my mind at least.
>
> Mike
>
>
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