That is correct.... It is not a large setup (6-10 Servers with some MACs on the other side that will have multiple IP's. I have actually started to look at BGP but I am quite unfamilar with it.
We were going to use short TTL's for the DNS and hope that the time out would quickly redirect but it looks like that is probably not a good idea.... Do you think we should go the BGP route? Thanks ""Troy Leliard"" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > If I follow, you have two wan conncetions providing access to you server > farm. Some of the servers on this farm will have 2 public IP address, one > from each of your providers? > > Presumably you aren't of a large enough size to warrant applying for you own > AS, and using BGP,m which is the preferred solution. (as you will see why > below). > > The next question is how do you invisage doing load balancing / fault > tolerance. Presumably you will have two dns entries for your server, eg > www.mywebserver.,com has two a records, on pointing to the Sprint IP, and > one pointing to the Qwest IP. If either of your wan links go down, dns is > not intelligent enough to stop routing to the "down" ip address and you will > still have 50% traffic being dropped due to the round robin nature of DNS. > > Terry Oldham wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > Our goal is to setup the two WAN connections for both fault > > tolerance and > > load balancing via the router. > > > > We want some of the server machines to have direct access to > > the internet > > and then the rest will go through our proxy server. The > > computers that we > > want to connect directly will be issued an IP address from the > > block of IP > > that we were given, in fact they will be given 2 ip addresses, > > one from > > Qwest and one from Sprint. > > > > I too am a lowly CCNA just looking for answers... > > > > Thanks > > > > ""Steven Aiello"" wrote in message > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Terry, > > > > > > I'm not totally sure what you are doing with your setup. > > Are you web > > > hosting and you have the 2 connections up for fault > > tolerance? or some > > > other reason. Unless I am mistaken is you are running > > between to AS's > > > on the net you need to use BGP. ( Please all correct me if > > I'm wrong, > > > I'm still a lowly CCNA ) But I know that when we had our > > Qwest line > > > installed they asked us if we had another service provider > > for this > > > reason. Also if you are a stub network why not use default > > routes? > > > Like I said it's hard to say for sure with out knowing what > > your doing. > > > That's just what occurred to me. Hope it helps. > > > > > > Again please to all in the group correct me if I am mistaken, > > I'm more > > > than happy to be corrected if it means I have a greater > > understanding of > > > the subject. > > > > > > Steve Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=64500&t=64469 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
