Re: Dispatcher vs Keepalive

Thanks Henning!

I agree with that, just wanted to see if someone had a better solution.
Sometimes the easiest way to do something is not always the correct or the
best way.


Atenciosamente / Kind Regards / Cordialement / Un saludo,


*Sérgio Charrua*



On Sun, Jun 22, 2025 at 8:54 PM Henning Westerholt <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
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> if option 2 was easy to setup and gets the job done, I would personally
> just stay there instead of spending more time on other options.
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> Cheers,
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> Henning
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> *From:* Sergio Charrua via sr-users <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* Sonntag, 22. Juni 2025 17:43
> *To:* Kamailio (SER) - Users Mailing List <[email protected]>
> *Cc:* Sergio Charrua <[email protected]>
> *Subject:* [SR-Users] Dispatcher vs Keepalive
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> Hello all,
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> Just wondering your opinions on this....
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> The project I'm in uses a REST API to get the routes to relay the call to,
> and one of the main requirements is whenever an egress gateway is down,
> inform the REST API about its status, and the same once the gateway is up
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> So I was reading the modules docs and was stuck with a question: what
> would be the best solution to keep track of egress gateways availability?
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> 1 - using Keepalive with DRouting to ping each endpoint's address:port ,
> even though the solution is going to use RTJson with the JSON route list
> returned from a REST API which makes DRouting virtually useless, unless for
> using the list of gateways to send OPTIONS too. There is no event:routes to
> execute every time a gateway is down or up....
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> 2 - using Dispatcher module to "watch" for each endpoint's availability,
> and make use of the event:route of the Dispatcher module to inform REST API
> that the endpoint is down or back up once again. Again, RTJson with the
> JSON route list returned from the REST API would be used to manage routing.
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> I've done a few tests with Dispatcher, and it was really easy to setup the
> endpoint "watching" mode as well as the event:routes, but I might give a
> try on Keepalive if it is the better bet.
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> Would greatly appreciate your opinions and expertise on this.
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> Atenciosamente / Kind Regards / Cordialement / Un saludo,
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> *Sérgio Charrua*
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