[Freeswitch-users] What concepts in FreeSWITCH did you struggle with when you first started?

Brian West brian at freeswitch.org
Tue Oct 25 23:27:22 MSD 2016


Inline.

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 2:13 PM, Colin Morelli <colin.morelli at gmail.com>
wrote:

> +1 to SIP profiles. Took a good bit of reading before I realized that
> "internal" and "external" really have no significance at all, and could
> just as easily have been called "a" and "b" to the same effect. Initially,
> though, I got the feeling that these were inherently different types of SIP
> profiles, and each had an associated dialplan context. It's very freeing
> when you eventually learn that this is actually all entirely dynamic.
>

This is exactly right, most of the concepts in FreeSWITCH follow this mind
set, It does trip people up from time to time.


> In addition, I found the distinctions between what is confined to a single
> machine and what is properly clusterable (without external applications) to
> be lacking. For example, knowing that conferences don't replicate to
> external databases, nor do registrations when using mod_verto, etc. It can
> be easy to head down a path of getting everything working on a single
> machine and then realizing you have to change a lot to cluster it. In fact,
> generally speaking HA support seems lacking. Would be great to see more
> official FS documentation on example cluster setups with Kamailio/others.
>

A conference is very ephemeral in the concept of clustering an failover, We
are working on the HA documentation, But those are highly commercialized
use cases, The companies that tend to figure it out never share it back to
the community, I've been working with Giovanni to correct this.  :)  In
fact we do have a solution thats basically copy and paste.


>
> Best,
> Colin
>
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 3:07 PM Schneur Rosenberg <thesipguy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> That voicemails and  users are too integrated, coming  from Asterisk they
>> are completely different concepts, and it makes more sence that way
>> especially when you have dialplans sending calls to multiple voicemails
>> even if there is only one sip user.
>>
>> Sip password should be optional if using ip authentication (cidr).
>>
>> Sip profiles was very confusing, internal and external, port 5060 and
>> port 5080, it needs a lot better explanation for newbies and people coming
>> from Asterisk.
>>
>> On Oct 25, 2016 20:47, "Brian West" <brian at freeswitch.org> wrote:
>>
>> I would like to get community input on what concepts caused you the most
>> headache and any input/ideas that would help me design some tutorials /
>> videos that would help new users coming to FreeSWITCH.
>>
>> Your feedback will be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
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