I've successfully used a Symantec F/VPN 200 in a small environment, depends on what you have inside your network, and what you need to have visible from outside. It has two WAN ports, same IP range inside regardless of which WAN port it goes out. You'd still have two separate outside IP addresses, and if you needed to map internal IP addresses to outside addresses, you'd end up with two complete sets of outside addresses mapped to inside addresses. (I just found out this product has been discontinued, and replaced by the Gateway Security 400 series, but according to my source the Gateway Security 460 was supposedly designed as a follow on to the F/VPN 200 with the same features) Mike Gallo Infotouch Networking [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of List Mail User Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 12:30 PM To: [email protected] 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]
