[Freeswitch-users] Using FreeSWITCH as a proxy

[Oleg Stolyar]

Clive, Michael, Brian,
thank you so much for replying.  Please see my answers below.

I don't want to shut it down but I need to deploy the system in the cloud
where I cannot guarantee that any single instance will stay up.
*Clive*, what do you mean by "FreeSWITCH remains in control"?  I understand
that it remains in control of SIP messages but in the middle of a call
there should not be any SIP messages being passed through, so if the proxy
server goes down the RTP between the endpoints should keep going.

*Michael*, I tried "shutdown now"  - it does not seem to work.  The
documentation says that it will still clean up the current traffic, so it
hangs up the call before shutting down.  *That being said - if I simply
disconnect the proxy machine from the network, the call continues as
expected, so in this case it works as I need it to!*

*Brian*, we are definitely considering OpenSIPS and other proxies but I'd
like to try to set up a system with a single stack to simplify deployment,
maintenance, upgrades and such.

Thanks again guys!

Thank you
*Oleg*


On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Brian Foster <bdfoster at davri.com> wrote:

> I'd almost be looking at something like OpenSIPS as FS is a back2back UA,
> not a proxy.
> On May 21, 2013 2:17 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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