Route over 2 connections

[robsuttonjr]

I have 2 sources to send traffic between 2 buildings. The first is a Monolink 155/300 which provides uses IR to provide a 100 MB connection via fiber. The other is a Cisco Aironet which provides 10 MB via RF to ethernet. I currently have them setup on a 3Com 3300 switch. I have the 100 MB in port 1 and the 10 MB in port 2. When either link drops the other takes over. The problem is that if either link degrades but does not drop packets still transmit to the device but go nowhere. I want to know if I can use a router to analyze a path based on ability to ping verse a link light. Anybody have any ideas on how to accomplish this?

 

[marsd]

Running any link state or dv routing protocol on this
network would give you warning of failures and provide
you with the ability to fall through to your fallback link
when configured properly.
So yes, a router would do you some good.