[nflug] Routers... anybody?

[Robert Meyer]

Well, that's where I'm trying to go with this.  We have a single internet connection and our business clients use the web to get to us so if the ISP connection drops, we lose business, quickly.  We're currently using Vaspian as both our telephone carrier and our ISP.  I haven't been able to find out what they'd suppoort, yet, since they're apparently not in this week.  We want to get to a multiple connection scheme but I don't know what the different ISPs support.

I've been readiing about VRRP and HSRP.  I know that HSRP is proprietary to Cisco and VRRP is nominally a non-proprietary standard.  As much as I love standards, if the ISPs don't support it, then I can't use it.  I am in a position to have to do some quick costing to get this stuff on the financial planning people and get some things done.  We currently have a single Netscreen 100 that seems to be really good at losing connection state information with newer versions of Linux.  I can't get a firmware upgrade for it 'cuz it's not on maintenance and they won't put it on mantenance since it's beyond "end of life".

I may wind up with just a single connection with a backup router that I can stick in it's place in the event of a failure in the primary router.  It all comes down to what the costs versus the benefits are.  It's great 'cuz I don't know wha management would find acceptable and what they wouldn't.

Cheers!

Bob
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----- Original Message ----
From: Robert Wolfe <robertwolfe at localnet.com>
To: nflug at nflug.org
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 1:57:14 PM
Subject: Re: [nflug] Routers... anybody?


On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:37:20 -0800 (PST)
Robert Meyer <meyer_rm at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Routers seem to be the thing that quiets this list down...  Let's try
 an easier one... HSRP or VRRP?  Which would probably get the best
 support from ISPs?
> 

First, are you using multiple outbound connections?  HSRP is really
 only good from what I have been told for multiple outbounds and multiple
 multiple outbounds.  HSRP is also found in most commont IOS versions as
 well and is also easier to configure than VRRP (but, you probably
 already knew that <G>).

As far as support, you might have to contact your ISP's networking gods
 to find out more about that.

-- 
Robert Wolfe <robertwolfe at localnet.com>
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