Re: I need an expert advice on this

From: Steve Riley [MSFT] (steriley_at_microsoft.com)
Date: 12/17/04


Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 22:57:24 -0800

Check out a product called RainConnect from Rainfinity. It's a connection
load-balancing and failover add-on you can run on ISA Server. RainConnect +
ISA Server will accomplish what you're asking for.

http://www.rainfinity.com/products/rainconnect.html

Steve Riley
steriley@microsoft.com

"Herb Martin" <news@LearnQuick.com> wrote in message
news:%23$iAIj54EHA.3244@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Well, yes, you can get the two VPNs to work, but
> it won't fail over as you wish.
>
> It's a (re)routing problem really.
>
> You might be able to write a program to test the
> connectivity and CHANGE the routing table
> programmatically (that is basically what those
> expensive routers do.)
>
> --
> Herb Martin
>
>
> "Chris" <Chris@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:E4EB5E07-B99D-4C21-A60B-3B0026109DF4@microsoft.com...
>> Hi,
>> I have 4 locations accross the us connected via hardware vpn. My main
>> location has a sonicwall 4060 with two t1 as redundancy. If one fails the
>> location (main) is able to still be online. Now during a t1 failure the
> other
>> locations are not able to establish a vpn (their routers can only hold
>> one
> ip
>> address at a time) so I have to manually login into the routers and set
> the
>> ip of my working t1 so that they can reconnect to the vpn. Now I know
>> that
>> thre are routers out there that can have more that one ip address like my
>> 4060 but they are a bit expensive so I was wondering if I can set Windows
>> Server 2003 with ISA at all the locations and have those servers hold 2
>> IP
>> addresses (my 2 t1 lines) and connect via vpn to my 4060 and if 1 of my
>> t1
>> fail the servers at the locations will use my next available ip to
> reconnect
>> to the vpn?
>>
>> What's most of the companies do in a situation like this?
>>
>> Thanks
>
>



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