also, since bgp is not practical for small business organizations as you would have to justify the ASN requirements, you can have a firewall, for instance fortigate, which is capable of doing the routing, load balancing and failover for two different ISPs.
regards, reg --- jepoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Guys, > You can actually configure BGP using private ASN > and let your provider do the rest of the config. Or > you can do a simple static routing for a failover > setup. > > HTH > > jepoy > > "Paul Patrick C. Prantilla" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Tony, > > BGP is supported on the 2621. However you usually > need more reasons (or > rather, requirements) than just multihoming to want > BGP. You should have > some additional organizational network prerequisites > as another poster > mentioned...and you should also have applied for > your ASN. Even if you > do have all of these, it's recommended as much as > possible for small > organizations to avoid this so as to keep the global > routing table low > especially if your organization isn't that big. > > Why not try load-sharing instead on both interfaces? > Try the following > on your WAN connections. > > ip load-sharing per-packet > > Granted, I haven't tried that on two different > serial connection from > different ISPs yet. I'd be interested to know how it > goes. I think I > posted here before on how to get something similar > on doing that on a > linux box with ethernet nics. > > Which brings us to using a linux box for WAN > connections.... > > About the DTE V.35 cable...what is the connection on > the other end? The > other end of the V.35 that is? If it's a DB-60...I > believe there are > actually PCI cards for that, and I know there are > models supported by > the linux kernel. I'm not sure if there are DTE > cables with smartserial > connectors that are supported by PCI cards though. > > If you wish to go with the linux box route....you > may wish to ask the > ASTI guys about that. They do funky stuff, so I > wouldn't be surprised if > they experimented with that before. > > -Paul Patrick C. Prantilla > > Tony Raboza wrote: > > > > Mga peeps, > > > > Medyo OT ... Tanong ko lang po ... may plan po > kami na mag-BGP using > > Cisco router. > > > > Internet connections to two different ISPs - tapos > connected sila sa isa > > Cisco router, tapos mag BGP para kung may problem > sa isa link - > > halimbawa mag-down - ang gagamitin yung isa link. > Puwede di ba? Ano po > > ba pede Cisco router dito? Cisco 2621 pede na po > ba? > > > > or > > > > Nabasa ko po yung zebra or kung ano pa man sa > Linux puwede din daw ... > > may nakagawa na ba nito? Using Linux with zebra > tapos connected sa two > > different ISP ... ano po ba requirements? ano > specs sa machine? paano > > kabit yung v35 na galing modem sa Linux box? > > > > > > Salamat, > > trabz > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _________________________________________________ > > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > > > --------------------------------- > Get amazing travel prices for air and hotel in one > click on Yahoo! FareChase > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
