The 2 circuits will be ethernet feeds, one is a wireless backhaul to my main pop, and the other will be a fiber handoff from another provider. Both in the 10-20mb/s range for spped of circuit. The fiber will be the primary feed. As for laod balancing, it will ne nat. I think now after looking at our layout we willprobably go with an active-standby setup where we have the fiber connection be the main link out and in case of failure of that link roll to the wireless bacjhaullink. Thanks so much for the feedback.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Butch Evans Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 4:48 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] router to load balance 2 wan connections On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 16:20 -0500, Alan Long wrote: > I am looking for a router to load balance 2 wan connections and support 450 > users behind the router. I will be bringing in 2 external circuits from > different providers and want to be able to use both. Any have any experience > with gear to handle this? Alan, I have done this type of thing with everything from Mikrotik to ImageStream to Cisco (YUK). 1. What type of circuits are the 2 wan connections? 2. How much overall bandwidth do you need to route (could be answered by #1) 3. By "load balance", do you mean NAT or a BGP type load balance? Depending on the answers to the above question I can provide you with a better answer as to which equipment is best. There are, of course, low grade consumer devices that can do this, but I doubt that's what you were looking for. -- ******************************************************************** * Butch Evans * Professional Network Consultation* * http://www.butchevans.com/ * Network Engineering * * http://www.wispa.org/ * WISPA Board Member * * http://blog.butchevans.com/ * Wired or Wireless Networks * ******************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.238 / Virus Database: 270.12.3/2076 - Release Date: 04/23/09 06:30:00 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
