Siju George wrote: > > So it is pointless to take different ISPs for redundancy right? > > Because if the BT ADSL line goes down then everything suffer from it?
not necessarily, but you'd have to choose your ISPs carefully to ensure that they used disparate routing, if one were BT, the other would have to be a provider who'd unbundled the exchange, but even then there's a good chance they'd still use BT somewhere in their network. if you want resilience, ADSL is not the right product, it's a consumer product and specifically set up as such by BT. your best bet is a leased line with ADSL backup; however, in some areas SDSL can be bought with similar quality levels to a leased line for a reasonable price - e.g. Redstone. Siju George wrote: > How do the British people use pfSense as the firewall while using BT > as their ISP? I use newnet.co.uk as my ISP - static IP for free, decent data allowance per month, reasonable price, good service. I use a cheapo adsl modem in "half bridge" aka zero IP bridge which essentially allows my linux firewall to get a real IP address. I then use siproxd and other techniques to allow VOIP phones to work on the internal RFC1918 addresses. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
