Issues like this are why I use an external session border controller...
specially with HA systems.

Mike

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 6:38 AM, Irena Dolovčak <irena.dolov...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> we have a problem regarding High Availability cluster. two sipxecs servers
> are connected through HA cluster, and each one of them has their own trunk.
> our phones are registered randomly on both servers.
>
> although the high availability works (when one server goes down, the second
> takes over all the calls immediatley),  it seems that incoming calls don't
> always get through. to be more precise, exactly every second call goes
> through. by checking the logs, it seems that the remaining sipxecs server
> (one is down) does load balancing, that is, once it processes the call
> himself, once it sends the call to the other server (although it is down),
> thinking it will process the call. while this isn't a problem while both
> servers are up, it kinda makes HA system pointless, because we want to have
> all the calls going through no matter what.
>
> by the looks of it, one would say this is the way the sipxecs was designed
> to function, because this thing always happens. it even happened in the
> 4.2.1 version (now we are using 4.4.0). we want to be sure every call,
> outgoing and incoming, will get through. after all, that is why we are
> making the HA cluster in the first place. does anybody has any idea how to
> stop this load balancing of incoming calls?
>
> additional information:
> it didn't matter if the phone was registered with the server that was still
> up, or with the server that went down we would get the problem described
> above.
>
> p.s.
> we also had a problem with sipxbridges in HA. although these two problems
> seem unrelated,  for more information on the other one check:
>
> http://track.sipfoundry.org/browse/XX-9582?focusedCommentId=55113#action_55113
>
>
> Regards,
> --
> Irena Dolovčak
>
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