[Freeswitch-users] Calling Multiple Destinations with Failover

[Michael Jerris]

  I think that summary is totally wrong.  Loopback should be used  
here, and this should work to do what you want, just be aware of what  
that means.

Mike


On Aug 8, 2009, at 4:24 PM, Phillip Jones wrote:

> Mike/Rupa ,
>
> Thanks for your help on this. So I am correct that summarizing that
> FreeSWITCH does not really support fail over and multiple call
> destinations because the same mechanism is used to achieve both? And
> that loopback as a solution is possible but not recommended?
>
> Is there any other solution to this? Perhaps a second FS box in the  
> mix?
>
> Phil
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Michael Jerris<mike at jerris.com> wrote:
>> loopback ends up using extra threads which we are only able to drop
>> later in certain situations so it will decrease your total amount of
>> calls you can do if your not careful with them.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> On Aug 8, 2009, at 1:44 PM, Phillip Jones wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks very much for that - very help.
>>>
>>> Why would loopback be considered "abuse"? What would be the  
>>> downsides
>>> of doing this?
>>>
>>> On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Rupa Schomaker<rupa at rupa.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Rupa Schomaker <rupa at rupa.com>  
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> <action application="bridge" data="sofia/gw1/$1|sofia/gw2/$2..."/>
>>>>
>>>> That of course, should be:
>>>>
>>>>  <action application="bridge" data="sofia/gw1/$1|sofia/gw2/$1..."/>
>>>> --
>>>> -Rupa