>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Mar 18 11:44:25 2005
>From: "Gary Patrick - Hotel Kiosks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[email protected]>
>References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: [SOCALWUG] - failover question
>Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 11:16:12 -0800
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>Anybody know of a good way to do failover?
>
>I have a hotel where we have two different high-speed carriers coming in.
>One is for back up in case the other fails. We have tried unsucessfully to
>get a Linksys 10/100 4-Port VPN Router to work. It has dual Internet ports
>on the Router that lets you connect a second Internet line as a backup to
>insure that you're never disconnected. Of course there are different IP
>ranges to deal with and all our radios, etc., need to change over so we can
>continue to monitor the.
>
>Any bright ideas?
>
>Gary
>
>
I run such a network constantly, but seting it up is non-trivial.
First and most important question: How much are you willing to spend?
For probably <$8K, you can get your own address space, ASN, and contract for
routing (a couple of hundred a month). With a good consultant and a 'BSD
box, you can build a system for under $1K + consulting fees (non-trivial),
but your monthly costs would stay the same as now. There are a few other
options too, but cost will decide.
Paul Shupak
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