[OpenSIPS-Users] Redirect to independent servers

[Bogdan-Andrei Iancu]

Hi Gabriel,

But the software you mentioned, where is it looking for the caller's IP 
- network level? sip level ?

Regards,
Bogdan

Gabriel Georgescu wrote:
> Thank you for your detailed answer Brett!
> The problem with this additional X-Original-IP header is that it will 
> not be recognized by the software on the destination voip server. And 
> I cannot modify that software.
>
>
> At 12:58 AM 8/13/2009, Brett Nemeroff wrote:
>> Gabriel,
>> You can't really set a call limit if you perform the redirects 
>> statelessly. Basically the server wouldn't know the call count per 
>> server if you did that.
>>
>> What I see most people do here is to add some sort of header like 
>> X-Original-IP with the original IP of the request. Then on the 
>> destination server(s), use that header if it is present.
>>
>> Of course, you should really remove any existing X-Original-IP 
>> headers before adding one to keep users from spoofing.
>>
>> -Brett
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Gabriel Georgescu 
>> <gabrielgeo99 at gmail.com <mailto:gabrielgeo99 at gmail.com> > wrote:
>>
>>     Hi List,
>>
>>     Can anybody give me an ideea? I try to implement a load balancing
>>     scenario or call distribution to a farm of independent voip servers,
>>     but the original caller IP has to be preserved. Because these servers
>>     have their own billing based on original caller IP.
>>     I understand that it might be possible to do this by answering to the
>>     initial request with a 'redirect' message specifying eafch time the
>>     new server IP.
>>     Is this working, or is this the best way to do it?
>>     Also I want to be able to probe if the independent servers are alive
>>     and set a maximum calls redirected/minute limit for each server.
>>     Can all this be done with opensips?
>>
>>     Thanks in advance,
>>     Gabriel
>>
>>
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