[TriLUG] BSD/Linux firewall with multiple ISP and failover?

[Shawn Hood]

Whatever you do, don't use any of those cheap dual WAN routers like
the Xincom 502.  I read good reviews on them and then bought one. 
It's ridiculously slow and the failover didn't work half the time.

On 1/27/06, Matt Pusateri <mpusateri at wickedtrails.com> wrote:
> Greg,
>
> What about the carp stuff in OpenBSD.  I haven't used it, so I may be
> off base here, but I bet a little bit of scripting could make it work
> for ISP failover instead of just firewall failover.
>
> Matt P.
>
>
> On Fri, January 27, 2006 11:13 am, Greg Brown wrote:
> > Hey all.  I think I finally hit a dead-end with M0n0wall.  My outer
> > banks
> > client now requires fail over from the DSL Internet connection to a
> > 2nd ISP,
> > probably a cable modem.  My research indicates that M0n0 doesn't
> > support
> > this yet.
> >
> > What are my options here besides something like a Cisco 2621xm (WAY
> > too
> > expensive for this client)?  Does anyone know of an inexpensive
> > appliance
> > that they have tested for fail over Internet?  Or can a BSD/Linux box
> > be
> > built for this purpose?
> >
> > Greg
> > --
> > TriLUG mailing list        :
> > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug
> > TriLUG Organizational FAQ  : http://trilug.org/faq/
> > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> TriLUG mailing list        : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug
> TriLUG Organizational FAQ  : http://trilug.org/faq/
> TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
>


--
Shawn Hood
Systems Engineer
FavoriteAgent.com
(910) 670-1819 Mobile