Hi, (sorry for top posting).
Thank you to the kind people who have emailed me off list. I think we now have a workable/viable solution Thanks, Simon. On Thu, 7 Oct 2021 at 09:27, Simon Burke <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
