Thanks for all the input on this subject, it's nice to know where to get information on a subject without having to find out the hard way that it doesn't work or it's impracticle.
Thanks again. Henry -- Henry L. Coleman. < Bill Sandiford> > John: > > Good question, I have the answer for you. > > You can tell the box to prefer one connection over the other for certain > routes (based on source or destination IP address) during normal operation > (both connections up). If the preferred connection fails, then the > traffic > falls over to the other connection. > > Bill > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Van Ostrand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Bill Sandiford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 2:17 PM > Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] Using Cable as a failover from DSL > > >> Bill Sandiford wrote: >>> Henry: >>> >>> I 100% agree with the rational for what you are doing, however I >>> wouldn't >>> do this on the Asterisk box. >>> >>> I would look into a hardware appliance for this. >>> >>> Something like a HotBrick LB-2 would work great for this and they are >>> fairly cheap as well. >>> >>> http://www.redundantinternet.com/en/LB-2.html >>> >> This might not perform as you expect. It's probably used to load balance >> things like HTTP sessions where the from IP address is less of an issue. >> How would one control which WAN would be used to register SIP? Then when >> a >> WAN connection fails Asterisk would still need to re-register. Could you >> register via both? >> >> When I've done this in the past, I've established a VPN over the >> Internet >> (I controlled both ends) and when the IP changed the VPN would >> re-establish and all the existing connections would lurch forward and >> continue one. Still in your case calls would go dead until the LAN >> re-established. >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
