[c-nsp] 2 Internet connections for small office solution. PIX ?

[Robert Boyle]

At 10:37 AM 6/21/2006, you wrote:
>Does anyone know of an easy solution to take 2 internet connections 
>(both Ethernet, both from different providers) and use them 
>simultaneously on a single LAN?
>The site has a T1 and Broadband connection, PIX-515-R, 
>WS-C3548-XL-EN.  They would rather not manage a BGP setup, and right 
>now they are manually switching between providers during an outage.
>Looking for a small office appliance, or a way to configure the PIX 
>to handle both connections and provide some redundancy and additional speed.

If you are just looking for failover, that is easy to accomplish with 
NAT and NAT maps if the two connections both terminate in the same 
router. If you want to be able to load balance, you will need to run 
BGP or some other per-session load balancing appliance.

-Robert



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