Hi David, the basic idea of load sharing with alternate gatekeepers works without round-robin DNS (but it could be combined for redundancy, see below). AlternateGKs heavily relies on a setup, where endpoint actively register with their gatekeeper. This might be the case in your video-conferencing setup, but for it isn't for many call termination / call routing setups that work mostly with untegistered gateways. Andrew Olson wrote a detailed description how to set up an active/passive configuration with IP failover on FreeBSD: https://rdweb.cns.vt.edu/~anolson/gnugk_vrrp.html But to be honest, I wouldn't try to set this up, if I couldn't test the configuration in a lab. These configurations can get complicated very easily. Regards, Jan David.Long@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > The manual says "You should even be able use the 2 GKs in a round_robin > fashion for load-sharing (that's untested, though :-)) " - has anyone done > this please, preferably with GnuGK on Windows. > > We are considering two GKs, each treating the other as its AlternateGK, > with end-points being distributed via Round-Robin DNS (or, possibly, > Windows load-balancing and a virtual IP). But this is for a live > video-conferencing set-up - no spare boxes to play with - so we can't > afford a lot of trial-and-error time. > > Thanks guys. > > Regards, > > Dave -- Jan Willamowius, jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, http://www.gnugk.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________________ Posting: mailto:Openh323gk-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Archive: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=openh323gk-users Unsubscribe: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openh323gk-users Homepage: http://www.gnugk.org/
