Thanks Jan - I'd read Andrew's article and it was interesting, despite the IP address typos in the configs, but didn't quite apply to our situation as we were looking for active-active and Windows, so I was hoping for something a little nearer to give me some confidence.
Regards,
Dave
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| Jan Willamowius <jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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To: openh323gk-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cc: Subject: Re: Load-sharing |
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
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