On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Arun Tomar <tomar.arun at gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> hi!
>
> I'm trying to achieve loadbalancing and failover on 2 ISP that we have. 
> roughly diagram provided above.
>
> There are couple of stuff that can be used, like ipfilter, ipmp, crossbow 
> etc. and i'm confused how to use these
> stuff and achieve the above scenario.
>
> Couple of confusions:
>
> 1. Every ISP has their own gateway and dns settings.
> 2. Both ISP may provide a static ip or may not, or only one may provide 
> static IP and other dhcp.
> 3. Do we need to do NAT (between the osol box and ISP) or let them connect to 
> the osol box and do the NAT from the osol?
> 4. Local network need not know that there are 2 ISP. They'll just send the 
> outbound to the osol box.

You need three interfaces:
- one on the inside, which becomes the gateway for your inside network.
- one connected to ISP_A
- one connected to ISP_B

> 5. Automatically use the other ISP (ISP2) if one (ISP1) goes down and start 
> using it once the ISP1 is working again.
> How to achieve that eg: IPMP, or crossbow etc. ?

IPMP requires that both the interfaces have a static IP configured.
Since you have the really excellent opensolaris bible, see page 278.

See : http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/crossbow_net_virt.jsp

> 6. How to get the intimation, if one of the ISP's (ISP1) goes down? or rather 
> the system will automatically log a complaint
> with the ISP1 via mail, using the other working ISP2.
>

This is a useful requirement. I need to read up on this, and intend to
ask on crossbow-discuss about this.

> regds,
> Arun.
>
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