Hi, Currently my employer (Telford based) has the below setup, but we're looking at reasonable alternatives as our lines with Virgin Media are due renewal imminently.
They have two lines, one 500Mbps (fully managed), and a 100Mbps backup line which is a VM provisioned BT line. The failover between the two is via HRSP monitoring the next hop, so we've had instances when we've been down completely because of a fibre break further along the line. We have 2 x /24 subnets and 2 /25 subnets (and no ipv6), but use a massive 90'ish addresses. All assigned PA, so we would have to re-IP address everything if VM would not port (BT alluded that this is possible but doubtful). Having spoken to other providers we've been told that as the only physical lines into the building are BT/VM owned, then that's who we're limited to using. Which is our main stumbling block at the moment. That being said BT have apparently stated that they would only sell to us via a partner and not directly. but have offered us 1Gbps on both lines load balanced. I'm not worried about the prospect of self managing, and our own kit ends with a small PFSense cluster (we've historically had issues with packet loss when using CARP on the WAN interface) and Mikrotik switches. If anyone can suggest anyone local who would be able to assist or suggest an option I've not thought of. Thanks, Simon.
