[Freeswitch-users] Load-Balance FreeSWITCH with Ultramonkey

[Anthony Minessale]

can we do it without advertising to use ubuntu =D
We don't like encouraging our users to use bleeding edge OS for our own
sanity with debugging.
Not to say you are not allowed to I just don't want to encourage it =p



On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Even André Fiskvik <grevenx at me.com> wrote:

> That's very cool Mike!
> I'm going to try to configure four boxes with this as well (Btw, did you
> use physical hardware or virtualization?)
> and see how it goes. I followed Daniel Aliaman's blog as well, but I can
> try it again with the tips
> you provided on FreeSWITCH config to see if I can get it working properly
> this time.
> We did the setup on CentOS, but I wouldn't think that would be any issue.
>
> Perhaps you or we could write up a complete guide about this on the wiki
> since this is an scenario
> commonly used? Also it would be great if we could outline possible issues
> (and even better solutions)
> to this kind of setup with regards to stuff like conferencing, bridging
> between registered users and presence.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Even André
>
>
> On 1. okt. 2009, at 18.45, Mike van Lammeren wrote:
>
> Guess what? I have two FreeSWITCH servers working behind UltraMonkey, using
> heartbeat and ldirectord for load-balancing, fail-over and high
> availability! I'm probably not the first one to do it, but as near as Google
> and I can tell, I'm the first one to write about it.
> Here's how you can duplicate my setup:
>
> 1. Install Ubuntu Server 8 on four machines, either real or VM.
> 2. Compile and install FreeSWITCH v1.0.4 from source on two machines,
> following these instructions:
> http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Quick_Start
>  <http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Quick_Start>3. Configure both
> FreeSWITCH boxes, and make sure they are both working.
> 4. Follow (most of) these instructions from Daniel Aliaman's blog. They
> were written for Asterisk, but since a SIP connection is a SIP connection,
> most of the document applies to FreeSWITCH:
> http://www.danielaliaman.com/blog/files/ultramonkeyasterisk.pdf
>
> <http://www.danielaliaman.com/blog/files/ultramonkeyasterisk.pdf>The one
> problem I ran into was the IP address and port to which FreeSWITCH was
> bound. The default is to use the primary address, which works great
> out-of-the-box for everything else. When a client tried to register, all it
> got back was an ICMP error -- Destination Unreachable, Port Unreachable.
> That error is returned when no sockets are listening for UDP packets. To get
> FreeSWITCH to listen for your Virtual IP, you need to set it in two places:
>
> 5. In /opt/freeswitch/conf/vars.xml, set "bind_server_ip".
> 6. In /opt/freeswitch/conf/sip_profiles/internal.xml, set "sip-ip".
>
> That should do it! If you have any success, please report to this list.
>
> Keep in mind that if you want to do something like conferencing between two
> registered clients, then you have to deal with the fact that the clients may
> or may not be on the same box.
>
> Mike van Lammeren
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Mike van Lammeren <mike at van.lammeren.net
> > wrote:
>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 9:05 PM, "Even André Fiskvik" <grevenx at me.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> From: "Even André Fiskvik" <grevenx at me.com>
>>> To: freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org
>>> Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:52:13 +0200
>>> Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Load-Balance FreeSWITCH with Ultramonkey
>>> I have been working with a similar setup myself, but for some reason I
>>> ended up ditching theUltraMonkey setup because I just couldn't get it to
>>> work right.
>>>
>>> It's been quite a while since my effort, so I don't remember what the
>>> exact issue was.
>>> I got registrations to work, but had some other sip-dialog issues.
>>>
>>> We have since then changed over to running OpenSIPs as a loadbalancer in
>>> front of
>>> multiple FreeSWITCH instances. This setup is still in testing, but
>>> seemlingy works fine
>>> (and if it doesn't, it's my own fault for writing a bad opensips config).
>>>
>>> After we have done some more testing I can create a wiki-page with config
>>> details.
>>>
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Even André
>>>
>>>
>> Thanks, Even, that would be great! I might have to give up on the
>> ultramonkey solution, since I can't find anyone who has made it work. It's
>> too bad, because it would fit well with the rest of our architecture.
>>
>> Mike van Lammeren
>>
>
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