I'd agree that pfSense is the easiest and most reliable way to configure
what your looking for.
The only thing that pfSense doesn't currently do is bandwidth throttling
while doing load balancing, so if that is not a deal breaker go with it.
If you need it, you'll either have to spend some big bucks or spin your
own in iptables or using shorewall ( which is what I did ).
I've used XinCom dual wan routers. The OEM that makes the XinCom and the
HotBrick is LeadFly out of Taiwan. I've had OKAY experience with them
but they just don't give you the level of control or reliability that I
found acceptable. I've no experience withthe DLink, but these lower end
boxes are mainly geared to do basic load balancing across the 2
connections based on either desitation IP, packets or sessions with
limited QOS. Fallover is not always smooth and connection auto
re-establishment is not always reliable.
Mike
Chuck Mariotti wrote:
My understanding is that www.pfsense.com has dual connection failover
(could build rules on traffic, etc...) might be a better route to take.
Regards,
Chuck
-----Original Message-----
From: Apache [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Henry L.Coleman
Sent: August-28-07 1:17 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [on-asterisk] Using Cable as a failover from DSL
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
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