[lvs-users] LVS + Asterisk

[Morgan Fainberg]

In theory, you could use a FWM (firewall mark) setup and persistent  
connections.  If you map the virtual server group to use the same FWM  
for the TCP ( SIP uses TCP port 5060) and UDP (RTP usually is  
configured for UDP ports 16384-32767)  datastreams.  It should work in  
theory.

However, the application-based Load-balancing in Asterisk does  
function fairly well and you might end up with a better solution.   
Typically, with load-balancing I find that the more complexity you add  
just makes it that much harder to debug when things go awry.

--
Morgan Fainberg
Systems Architect
(mt) Media Temple, Inc
http://www.mediatemple.net/

On May 16, 2008, at 12:52 PM, Gerry Reno wrote:

> Graeme Fowler wrote:
>> You could definitely sort out the main ports - TCP & UDP port 5060 -
>> trivially; but the follow-on complication is how you then track the
>> session traffic which can wander around all over the place (cf. the  
>> LVS
>> FTP helper).
>>
>> I'd strongly recommend you have a good read of the Asterisk mailing  
>> list
>> - it seems that there are several app-based load balancing schemes  
>> for
>> Asterisk, and if they do what you need, I'd use them.
>>
>>
> I had seen several references where people had said they had done this
> with lvs so that is what gave me the idea.  But maybe this is a case
> where an app-based LB scheme might be best.
>
> Regards,
> Gerry
>
>
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