My reasons are two-fold. One is as Chris said, I work from home AND have servers in the home that need to remain accessible to my hosted servers.
The 2nd is because I do a significant amount of off-site backups in 2 directions so a 2nd line allows me to saturate one with file transfers without affecting my more casual activities. I'd like to thank everyone for engaging in this dialog and helping out. I'm still having the same problem though. My 2nd WAN interface refuses to pull an IP via DHCP and by testing with the 1st interface, and other devices I know that the modem is more than happy to hand one out. How do I go about troubleshooting this? -----Original Message----- From: Chris Buechler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 2:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Message repeating in System Log, can't find the reason Anil Garg wrote: > Now that the broadband is very reliable, why would anyone use more > than one WAN at home. What are the benefits you have seen or desired > in multiple dhcp wan at home. "Very reliable" depends on your provider, your definition of reliable, and even more, your tolerance for downtime. My tolerance for downtime is 0. I work a significant amount out of my home office, largely on servers, routers, firewalls, switches, etc. in remote locations where I must have an Internet connection. My primary 15 Mb cable connection is down around 4 hours a month on average, and once a year or so for 48+ hours straight or longer. While that's no big deal for your typical residence, it's critical for me and *always* happens to me at the worst times. When you have clients that rely on you being accessible to assist any time, the money spent on the backup DSL connection is well worth it and a relatively insignificant cost. When I'm doing something critical after hours, I don't want to be stuck driving into the office or elsewhere with a working Internet connection at 3 AM to finish the job. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
