Aftab, HWIC-2FE was exactly the card I was looking as well. As I don't have a public IP address space and ASN, what options are left there in order to achieve automatic failover?
regards, martin 2011/8/8 Aftab Siddiqui <[email protected]>: > 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/
