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The information transmitted (including attachments) is covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. 2510-2521, is intended only for the person(s) or entity/entities to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient(s) is prohibited, If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. Alan Long wrote: > The 2 circuits will be ethernet feeds, one is a wireless backhaul to my main > pop, and the other will be a fiber handoff from another provider. Both in > the 10-20mb/s range for spped of circuit. The fiber will be the primary > feed. > As for laod balancing, it will ne nat. I think now after looking at our > layout we willprobably go with an active-standby setup where we have the > fiber connection be the main link out and in case of failure of that link > roll to the wireless bacjhaullink. > Thanks so much for the feedback. > > -----Original Message----- > From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On > Behalf Of Butch Evans > Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 4:48 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] router to load balance 2 wan connections > > On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 16:20 -0500, Alan Long wrote: > >> I am looking for a router to load balance 2 wan connections and support >> > 450 > >> users behind the router. I will be bringing in 2 external circuits from >> different providers and want to be able to use both. Any have any >> > experience > >> with gear to handle this? >> > > Alan, > I have done this type of thing with everything from Mikrotik to > ImageStream to Cisco (YUK). > > 1. What type of circuits are the 2 wan connections? > 2. How much overall bandwidth do you need to route (could be answered by > #1) > 3. By "load balance", do you mean NAT or a BGP type load balance? > > Depending on the answers to the above question I can provide you with a > better answer as to which equipment is best. There are, of course, low > grade consumer devices that can do this, but I doubt that's what you > were looking for. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
