Re: High availability design with FR, how?

2000-07-18 Thread Raymond Everson (Rainman)
My I please suggest you check out MHSRP? Natural TCP conversation load balancing it works: Oz wrote: > have not read the whole thread but from my meager understanding using HSRP > you need a live T to go with it .. > To have the instant failover.. > I will be playing with this in a cou

Re: High availability design with FR, how?

2000-07-11 Thread Oz
have not read the whole thread but from my meager understanding using HSRP you need a live T to go with it .. To have the instant failover.. I will be playing with this in a couple of weeks cause I have exaclty the same problem I have to resolve for a client.. just waiting for the other T to

Re: High availability design with FR, how?

2000-07-11 Thread John Neiberger
wow! That's going to take someone with far more design experience than I have. You're right, those SLAs have you backed into a corner, technologically. Hopefully, someone on the list might be able to offer better advice than I can. Good luck! John > Hi John, thanks for the reply. > > Yes

Re: High availability design with FR, how?

2000-07-11 Thread John Hardman
Hi John, thanks for the reply. Yes Howard is very correct, and a little more info here is required. Here is the deal... 1) My company is in the startup phases of a datacenter that will have a varitity of services, ISP, ASP, Outsourcing, distributed servers, etc. Think of exodus on a local scale

Re: High availability design with FR, how?

2000-07-11 Thread jenny . mcleod
eiberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: JENNY MCLEOD/NSO/CSDA) Subject: Re: High availability design with FR, how? If you're worried about your 4500 dying, then either buy another to have there waiting, or get a 24/7 service contract that would get a replacement

Re: High availability design with FR, how?

2000-07-10 Thread John Neiberger
If you're worried about your 4500 dying, then either buy another to have there waiting, or get a 24/7 service contract that would get a replacement to you quickly if needed. If you're worried about the circuits to your building going down all at once, then you simply need to get separate redundan

Re: High availability design with FR, how?

2000-07-10 Thread John Neiberger
We have a design similar to that, and it does create some difficulties. To make it worse, not only do we have a "duplicate" standby router, but an IBM mainframe as well! here's the layout: We have about 90 remote branches, and about 30 of those are considered "front line" branches with PVCs con

Re: High availability design with FR, how?

2000-07-10 Thread John Hardman
Hi It is not so much the out lying sites I am worried about, I have a dial backup (ISDN BRI to PRI) now. There are only a couple of sites that fall under the HSRP mandate. But I have a single 4500 doing the host part (i.e. the hub in a hub and spoke design) of the FR network. So what I need to d

RE: High availability design with FR, how?

2000-07-10 Thread Odell, Jeff
John, Depending on your bandwidth needs you might want to consider ISDN. My company uses BRI ISDN to back up each frame relay connection. Fairly inexpensive and with a few lines in your router config, can automatically come up when the frame relay goes down. I would recommend a 800 series rou