What your suggesting is certainly possible, however, in practice implementing reliable fail-over fall-back is very complicated so you'd probably end up doing a lot of coding.
That being said, there are likely solutions already available if you look around. On the other hand, I strongly suggest you just buy a firewall/router with dual WAN ports which are designed specifically for this purpose. The entry level models for small business aren't much more than a home version. I have not tested any of them with Asterisk but perhaps someone on this list can recommend a specific model. Regards, John On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 13:16 -0400, Henry L.Coleman wrote: > We all are aware that the uptime of a single DSL or Cable connection to an > ITSP is less than that of analog lines or a T1 so I'm putting out the idea > of using DSL and Cable where the chances of both failing at the same time > are very low. In normal operation the DSL would handle Voice (Asterisk) > while > the cable would handle any data traffic. > > So here's the plan (remember I'm not a network guy) > A cron job on the Asterisk server continually pings an external server > should the Ping take more than a two seconds then * IP address is change to > share the Data network until service is resumed. > > Is this a plan or am I just whistling "Dixie" > > TTFN > Henry --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
