Please forgive me, I'm an accidental network admin. My primarily role is DBA and occasional programmer. Unfortunately, we don't have a network admin, so I am stuck in very unfamiliar territory.
Small company with 2 internet connections (separate providers). Each internet connection has a static IP address. I want to set things up so that one internet connection acts as a failover for the other. We host websites, terminal services, and other webservices internally.
My preference would be to configure the system so that one connection handles to terminal services connection but also acts as a failover for the other connection. The other connection would handle the websites and webservices, but would act as a failover for the terminal services connection.
I currently own a relatively low end (think inexpensive) cisco router that I am using for one of the connections. The other internet connection is currently unused.
I realize I will need to purchase hardware, and I have no problem with this. I would welcome recommendations regarding hardware purchases.
I currently have things configured with my domain name provider for one of the static ip addresses, but I have no idea how I could configure failover ip addresses with the domain name provider.
Any advise is appreciated.
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Small company with 2 internet connections (separate providers). Each internet connection has a static IP address. I want to set things up so that one internet connection acts as a failover for the other. We host websites, terminal services, and other webservices internally.
My preference would be to configure the system so that one connection handles to terminal services connection but also acts as a failover for the other connection. The other connection would handle the websites and webservices, but would act as a failover for the terminal services connection.
I currently own a relatively low end (think inexpensive) cisco router that I am using for one of the connections. The other internet connection is currently unused.
I realize I will need to purchase hardware, and I have no problem with this. I would welcome recommendations regarding hardware purchases.
I currently have things configured with my domain name provider for one of the static ip addresses, but I have no idea how I could configure failover ip addresses with the domain name provider.
Any advise is appreciated.
-George
Microsoft SQL Server MVP
My Blogs
SQLCop
"The great things about standards is that there are so many to choose from." - Fortune Cookie Wisdom