Asking for the best solution: Yes its via BGP provided that you have you own Public IP space and ASN otherwise its not possible with 2 different ISPs. Adding HWIC-2FE would serve the physical requirement in your scenario.
m2c Regards, Aftab A. Siddiqui On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Martin T <[email protected]> wrote: > At the moment I have a following setup: > > http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/4227/252530.png > > The ISP-A connection is the primary link and the ISP-B connection(over > WiMAX) is the backup one. In case the primary link fails, I physically > plug out the fiber-optical converter cable from my Cisco router(Cisco > 1841) and insert the one from WiMAX device. In addition, I reconfigure > the IP parameters in the router. This is probably the most manual > "multihoming" possible :) I'm ready to upgrade my router so it > supports two Ethernet cables. > > a) Is it somehow possible to automatically switch over to another one > connection in case the primary one fails. For example ping > www.google.com over a period of time and in case it doesn't respond, > automatically switch over to backup connection? > > b) Is it somehow possible to have one static IP address while using > the services of two different IPSs? > > > While I'm afraid the latter is impossible, the first automatic > switchover should be somehow doable, shouldn't it? As I told, I'm > ready to invest into new equipment if it's necessary. > > PS I'm aware, that probably the most elegant solution would be a BGP > sessions with ISP routers over different last-mile technologies. This > would provide fast failover and I could use one IP address. > > > What are the best practices for multihome connection over two different > ISP's? > > > regards, > martin > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
