Re: [SOCALWUG] - failover question

[Tim Schaeffer]

Or if your doiung wireless you can buy two of these and set them up as 
gateways for your two providers. If one fails all downstream nodes will 
failover to the gateway thats still alive, and the one gateway will change 
over to become a wireless repeater for the other.

http://www.qorvus.net/qnode/index.html
Tim Schaeffer
Network Engineer
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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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