Re: internet connection redundancy

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From: Mike (oakiman_at_uol.com.ar)
Date: 06/26/04 

Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 11:56:22 -0700

Well actually I was not thinking in using Dial-up, I was
thinking in Cable and DSL, just for the sake of redundancy
in internet critical availability enviroment. Typical
Must ahve internet or I am loosing money.
It seems the best would be a double WAN port router

Thanks

>-----Original Message-----
>I'm currently toying with using my back-up dial account
that comes with my
>DSL for redundancy. It's working well, but the only phone
line I have also
>carries voice and the dang modem keeps answering the
phone.
>
>I've got my headless server set up with 2 nics and a
modem. Use RRAS and
>set-up a broadband connection on a nic and a demand-dial
connection on the
>modem.
>
>The trick is setting up the routing. Look at your routing
table and set the
>metric for the demand-dial connection to a higher value
than the broadband
>connection. When there are two routes to the same
network, RRAS will try the
>interface with the lowest metric first. This should be a
sufficeint method
>for achieving redundancy.
>
>If a person or fax needs to answer the phone, you'll have
problems. Are you
>having down-time issues?
>
>
>.
>

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