Re: Can i if an sbs fails or i have to turn it off.

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Glen wrote:
There could be a lot of revenue. I was going to try to use the sbs on 1 network card only and not routing the internet through it. Just taking the dsl into the switch and plugging the sbs into the switch too.
Glen

Yes, that's very common.

The issue is that to obtain SBS services reliably, all the workstations must use *only* the SBS as DNS server with *no* other DNS servers listed. With the SBS off, clearly there is no DNS service.

The simplest answer is to configure the router as a DHCP server when you switch off the SBS, and renew the DHCP leases on the workstations. The router will tell the workstations to use itself or the ISP's servers for DNS. When you boot up the SBS, disable router DHCP and renew the workstation leases again.

There is no automatic failover technique that allows SBS to work reliably. If continuous access to the Internet is important, then perhaps SBS isn't the right product, and a little more money must be invested. You would presumably also be looking at multiple Internet connections, which fail far more frequently than modern servers, along with suitable routing hardware to accomplish automatic failover.
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