You can use alternate gatekeepers feature, but it has some subtle problems. Most gateways allow you to configure at least two gatekeepers - if one fails, the gateway switches to the other one. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kyriakos Oikonomakos" <kyriakos.oikonomakos@xxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 12:23 PM > Is there any solutions for making a highly available cluster of gnugk's? > What I have in mind is not load balancing but a way for a pair of hosts > running gnugk in a master slave logic and when the master gnugk fails > the slave would take over. > > A possible solution is carp (http://www.ucarp.org) but using only carp > means that the calls, running at the moment the change from master to > slave takes place, would be disconnected. This is logical since the one > gatekeeper has no idea of the calls running on the other one and even if > it knew there is still the issue of the tcp connection state that should > be transferred from one machine to the other. I searched for this > subject on google but I found only papers and proposals. > > Has anynone else ever tried any other solution ? > Any ideas, hints? > > Kyriakos ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 13. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php _______________________________________________________ List: Openh323gk-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Archive: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=8549 Homepage: http://www.gnugk.org/
