Pipeline internet help
Hello All, At the moment the servers I ran has only one pipline to the net, Now I am looking at adding other one as a backup.. How do I go about make the second as a backup so if the first goes down the second will take over?? Then when the first one goes back online that will be used putting the second back into backup will our ip addresses work with both feeds? Thanks, Johnno -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Pipeline internet help
Johnno, That depends on where the second pipe is coming from. If it is coming from a different NOC of the same upstream company then they should take care of all the messy routing details. If you use multiple providers then use BGP to provide multiple routes for your IP blocks. Your upstream should be able to help you with this. BTW - be sure that your redundant connection is truly redundant. Here in the US many providers rent equipment space in the telcos office so one fire in a telco can take out all the different providers. You backup connection should take a *completely* different route from start to end, including the wires to your building (of course a totally separate building is even better :-) otherwise a single falling tree somewhere along the path could eliminate both connections. Pete -- http://www.elbnet.com ELB Internet Services, Inc. Web Design, Computer Consulting, Internet Hosting Johnno wrote: Hello All, At the moment the servers I ran has only one pipline to the net, Now I am looking at adding other one as a backup.. How do I go about make the second as a backup so if the first goes down the second will take over?? Then when the first one goes back online that will be used putting the second back into backup will our ip addresses work with both feeds? Thanks, Johnno -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Pipeline internet help
Hello All, At the moment the servers I ran has only one pipline to the net, Now I am looking at adding other one as a backup.. How do I go about make the second as a backup so if the first goes down the second will take over?? Then when the first one goes back online that will be used putting the second back into backup will our ip addresses work with both feeds? Thanks, Johnno
Re: Pipeline internet help
Johnno, That depends on where the second pipe is coming from. If it is coming from a different NOC of the same upstream company then they should take care of all the messy routing details. If you use multiple providers then use BGP to provide multiple routes for your IP blocks. Your upstream should be able to help you with this. BTW - be sure that your redundant connection is truly redundant. Here in the US many providers rent equipment space in the telcos office so one fire in a telco can take out all the different providers. You backup connection should take a *completely* different route from start to end, including the wires to your building (of course a totally separate building is even better :-) otherwise a single falling tree somewhere along the path could eliminate both connections. Pete -- http://www.elbnet.com ELB Internet Services, Inc. Web Design, Computer Consulting, Internet Hosting Johnno wrote: Hello All, At the moment the servers I ran has only one pipline to the net, Now I am looking at adding other one as a backup.. How do I go about make the second as a backup so if the first goes down the second will take over?? Then when the first one goes back online that will be used putting the second back into backup will our ip addresses work with both feeds? Thanks, Johnno -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
