Re: [cobalt-users] switch router suggestions?

[Kris Dahl <kris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 3/1/00 10:23 AM, Jeff Lasman at jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> At 09:32 AM 3/1/00 -0800, you wrote:
> 
>> Most people do 'redundant' bandwidth by having DNS offsite.  Multple IPs are
>> assigned to the host machines, one for each network.  If you get a decent
>> firewall, you should be able to hook up multiple routers to it and still be
>> covered.  So you are always on both networks... you can have DNS round-robin
>> load balance, and you can make adjustments to it in case one connection goes
>> down.  Poor man's redundant network.
> 
> I like it <smile>.  How do you make sure outgoing data takes the working path?

You can either reconfigure the firewall, or reconfigure the router to weight
the outgoing differently.  We had multiple T1s for incoming at one point and
used only one for outgoing as we migrated from one provider to the
next--worked pretty well.

-k