Thanks for the help on this everyone! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Schaeffer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 9:21 PM Subject: Re: [SOCALWUG] - failover question
> 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 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "List Mail User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 12:30 PM > Subject: Re: [SOCALWUG] - failover question > > > > >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 > >>... > >> > >>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 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
