My *nix droogies,
I'm in the middle of planning an n-tier architecture for a client. Just
finished setting up the SAN (Dell EMC), NAS, HA IIS, and SQL cluster. I
now have to link and failover two F5 BIG-IPs and am going to propose
that they uses two PIXes / ASAs in failover.
They have one T3 and three T1s and would like for me to set up a routing
solution that will automatically kick over should they lose connection.
I called Cisco, and their quote was almost $30,000 (a 3845 router or (at
most) a 7200 router [definitely overkill here]). I showed that to them,
and they did not want to spend that much.
I'm not yet sure how exactly such a setup would work in theory. How can
I give all my internal resources one address and then have internal and
external traffic magically flow without a hiccup when a line goes down?
Reading through Cisco's documentation, I know (theoretically) about
things like backup interface failover, routing protocols, floating
static routes, and OER but don't have experiencing bringing it all
together in a production environment where I have extremely very little
room for error.
Roger
