[Freeswitch-users] Using FreeSWITCH as a proxy

[Michael Jerris]

FreeSWITCH really isn't a proxy, its a B2BUA.  That being said, if you stop freeswitch with "fsctl shutdown now" it will exit without cleaning up any running calls.


On May 21, 2013, at 2:09 PM, clive engelberg <clive18 at webmail.co.za> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> You can get help in exchange for some netflix movies:)
> 
> jk :)
> 
> Freeswitch will act as a stateful proxy, meaning it will remain in control of the call, even though RTP goes point to point.
> 
> Why would you want to be able to shut down FS anyways?
> 
> Clive
> 
> On Mon, 20 May 2013 19:10:09 -0700 Oleg Stolyar <ostolyar at netflix.com> wrote
> 
> Hi,
>  
> I am trying to use FreeSWITCH as a SIP proxy. I have the dialplan below which simply sets bypass_media to true and then bridges to another FreeSWITCH server.
>  
> However, when during the call I shut down the proxy FS, the call is immediately dropped. Why is that? Is there a way to keep it going? I understand that in this case I won't be able to properly send the BYE signal when one of the parties hangs up and that's OK.
>  
> I tried using redirect and deflect instead of the bridge but those don't seem to work at all - probably because my UAs don't know how to handle redirects.
>  
> <extension name="proxy_test">
> <condition field="destination_number" expression="^(p\w+)$">
> <action application="set" data="bypass_media=true"/>
> <action application="bridge" data="sofia/external/1000 at 10.2.182.243"/>
> </condition>
> </extension>
>  
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