You can also use the Fortigate 60 Firewall. It comes with Dual WAN support. Actually Jeremy may sell you a Fortigate 100. Fort Dodge had a issue with the Load Balancing on the Fortigate, but it was due to all their web traffic going through an internal proxy. The Fortigate logic would route all traffic from an IP address to a single ISP to ensure there would be no problems at the remote end putting the packets back together.
From: Richardson,Tony Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 8:32 AM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: RE: [info-tech] Handling Internet Thanks for your help. I will look into the Enhanced Sonicwall 3060 From: info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us [mailto:info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us] On Behalf Of Pearson, Jeremy Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 8:28 AM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: RE: [info-tech] Handling Internet We have a 5 MB Ethernet connection from Frontier, our local telco, with 28 ip addressed on it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us [mailto:info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us] On Behalf Of Richardson,Tony Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 8:20 AM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: RE: [info-tech] Handling Internet Assuming AEA is one vendor who is the other? From: info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us [mailto:info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us] On Behalf Of Pearson, Jeremy Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 8:07 AM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: RE: [info-tech] Handling Internet Tony- We are currently using our Sonicwall 3060 with Enhanced Firmware to provide load balancing between two 5 MB circuits from two different Internet providers. All works pretty well. My only complaint is that once you do have a failover (for whatever reason) the Sonicwall will turn it off and work just as you think it should, until the circuit comes back up. The only problem is that it will not start load balancing again over the failed link. It still relies heavily on the link that stayed up, until you do a reboot of the firewall, and then everything goes back to normal. It is not a big deal, and since it took care of the whole reason we installed it, I am fine with that. We just reboot the firewall at some point late in the day, and all returns to normal. Not much to see, but feel free to run over and check it out, or ask any questions. Jeremy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us [mailto:info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us] On Behalf Of Richardson,Tony Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 5:02 AM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: [info-tech] Handling Internet Hello All, As the internet becomes more critical to daily instructional needs such as the use of online applications how is everyone handling their internet failover. Is there anyone using two different vendors to provide internet failover? What hardware/software are you using for this? Thanks, Tony Richardson, Technology Coordinator Humboldt Community School District trichard...@humboldt.k12.ia.us
