proskater123 Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 Ok so I now have two lines out of my house and i was wondering if there was a way to set up windows server 2003, with three interfaces; two with the seprate lines going in, and the other out to my network. So if one of the lines fail it switches over to the other one and my network will still have internet. It doesn't have to be windows 2003 but either on the software side or a really cheap hardware appliance. Thanks /p P.s couldn't find the spell check. Sorry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Necron Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 Ok so I now have two lines out of my house and i was wondering if there was a way to set up windows server 2003, with three interfaces; two with the seprate lines going in, and the other out to my network. So if one of the lines fail it switches over to the other one and my network will still have internet. It doesn't have to be windows 2003 but either on the software side or a really cheap hardware appliance. Thanks /p P.s couldn't find the spell check. Sorry Depending on what you ultimately need to do, Untangle has WAN failover and much more. (Never mind, I see that it is a premium feature, not a free as in beer feature. Sorry.) http://wiki.untangle.com/index.php/Main_Page Give Astaro Security Gateway a shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 Server 2003 can do adapter teaming and should be able to handle the fail over just fine, but they generally are for when on the same subnet/cluster. If you have two seperate internet connections, Im not exactly sure how that would work or to set it up, but Im sure it can be done in Server 2003. Alternatively, you could try this guys solution: http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-7343-0.ht...ssageID=3024113 It basically pings one network gateway at a set interval, then if cant be reached, defaults to the other nics gateway(I am assuming, have not tried any of this myself). http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&saf...amp;btnG=Search Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metatron Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 Just buy a Cisco RV042 4-Port load balancer, it will let you do a full back connection or you can use both internet ports at the same time, and let the router balance your requirements between them for maximum bandwidth efficiency. The power regiments tend to be less than running a server to do the job, its less hassle to do and there only like £80 new or I've seen them for £40 on a refurbished units. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRGRIM Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 I'm not a Cisco guy so I can't comment on the last posters hardware, but some of the DrayTek and ZyXEL routers also provide WAN balancing and Fail Over (prehaps my approach is wrong, but I go for WAN balancing rather than simply having the line sat, waiting to be used) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
proskater123 Posted October 22, 2009 Author Share Posted October 22, 2009 Well one connection is much slower than the other. I don't think wan balancing would be a smart idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lopez1364 Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 It is not recommended to do NIC teaming on 2003 because it is very unstable and NIC teaming causes unpredictable network behavior. Don't get me wrong NIC teaming (failover not load balanced) works and if you are not so concerned about 100% redundancy then team two NICs. One idea is why not have two switches, one active and one backup. Setup the NICs with the same IP and make the switch become active if one fails. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vector Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 I'm not sure what you mean by cheap hardware, but I have a peplink multiwan router that I use for connecting 4 of my neighbors wlans into one fat pipe using wrt's in client mode. Of course you don"t have to use the wrts unless you want to go wireless but you might want to check out what peplink has avail or see if you can pickup a cheaper used one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3TeK Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 yea screw all that just buy this http://www.roc-noc.com/product.php?productid=201 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRGRIM Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 Well one connection is much slower than the other. I don't think wan balancing would be a smart idea. If one line is slower then add load balanacing rules. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 PFsense 1.2 does Multi-WAN stuff: http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/MultiWanVersion1.2 IMHO, PFsense is probably the most robust router platform for x86 hardware, very easy to use and works like a charm. You can run it on a PC Engines ALIX 2D3 embedded platform, which has 3 NICs and uses 4watts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRGRIM Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 Sigh, VaKo do you know how long I have been looking for something like that board (i.e multiple NIC's)? Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 Really? I've had one for about 6 months now as my main router, running PFsense from a compact flash card and some kinda buffalo router running DD-WRT for a WAP. I really should have a blog or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3TeK Posted October 24, 2009 Share Posted October 24, 2009 Sigh, VaKo do you know how long I have been looking for something like that board (i.e multiple NIC's)? Cheers here i have 3 of those in my routerbox running RouterOS, runs like a champ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRGRIM Posted October 24, 2009 Share Posted October 24, 2009 here i have 3 of those in my routerbox running RouterOS, runs like a champ ? Not really what I said I was after. Full load (W) of that board are really low, don't know what Rig (W) you'd be pulling to run that card Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3TeK Posted October 24, 2009 Share Posted October 24, 2009 oh if you want low wattage then i'll repost that link again http://www.roc-noc.com/product.php?productid=201 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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