Victor, I am planning a VPN for a local non-profit my self as a volunteer project. I have been reading the Cisco Press CSVPN book. Part of the configuration that you can do as a backup is to specify multiple peers at your remote site for redundancy. The top of Page 92 Chapter 3 indicates that the remote router (in your case) will contact the first peer, and if that peer cannot be contacted then it will contact the next peer. The book also indicates that there is no limit to the number of peers you can specify. With that in mind, I would plan on pointing the remotes to the master VPN site as peer one and the backup VPN site for peer two. This should (in theory) kick the remote peers over to backup site once the remote peer tries to reconnect to the master peer. This has been a very good book in planning the VPN project that I am working on. Also note that I have only been reading the theory, I will be doing an actual implementation in March, so please correct me if I am wrong.
I would like to hear from you after this is in place and see how the consistent the VPN connectivity is and what kind of throughput you achieve. Anyone else have any input on how their VPN's are doing? Do they compare with Frame Relay? Is the Internet too unstable to fully support a business VPN to a small branch office? Thank You, Leslie McIntosh Network Engineer Deloitte & Touche (918)461-4894 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Victor Alegun Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 3:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Remote Sites and Disaster Recovery Site [7:36704] We have a bunch (say 25) of remote sites connected to our primary data center through point-to-point circuits ranging from 56k to T1s. We are planning to replace these circuits with VPN connection and use ISDN as a backup. My question is what is the best solution that will fit in this scenario and be able to reconnect these sites to a DR (Disaster recovery site) in the event of disaster. DR site is to be built with links to the primary data center. Bear in mind that this is a health organisation (non-profit) Money is tight, we are barely making the operational budget. Need a solution that is cheap and will meet our needs.---- Hints-- we are considering 1.) point-to-point for both primary and backup 2.) VPN and 3.) Frame-relay. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks. - This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and is protected by law. - If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=36822&t=36704 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
