Static Routing as failover

[dalmine007]

Hi guys, need some help urgently.

Let me start of by eplaining what I want to achieve. I have a billion vpn router unfortianetly it has no failover. I could go out and splash on a new router with 3G failover but I would like to know if it were possible to set up another connection on another router be it iburst neotel or 3g than setup static routes on the adsl router (which is my main router) to use the secondary router incase adsl fails.

I'd really appreciate any help or any other suggestions. The reason I donot want to go for a new router is that I would be stuck with 3g as failover

 

[dalmine007]

Sorry guys but am I thinking something impossible should I just go with the new 3g router please if anyone with some idea of this can give me an idea I would me extremely thankful

 

[davemc]

Meh .. I don't know if I can help you, but consider this:

I have a cheap PC that runs linux - ubuntu server.

It runs 4 connections simultaneously.

A. 1 3G connection for all traffic.
B. 1 connection for all international traffic.
C. 1 connection for all local-only traffic.
D. 1 connection for World of Warcraft traffic.

Now, connections B,C,D are specifically routed when they connect to handle their specific destinations.

Connection A is the default connection, and all traffic not running to B-C-D will go through A.

So, I have a fail-over capable setup. If A fails, the B-C-D connections will still route fine.

If any of the other connections fail, then the traffic will go through A.

Now, you can run linux in windows on your PC as a virtual machine.
If you want to try this setup, post here, and I'll see if I can help you through the configuration nightmare.

 

[dalmine007]

Thanks Dave.Spoke to the guys at miro just now and according to them it will be possible but cant guarantee it so will see if I can borrow a neotel router and try it out. If doesent work will try your solution.

 

[syntax]

Thanks Dave.Spoke to the guys at miro just now and according to them it will be possible but cant guarantee it so will see if I can borrow a neotel router and try it out. If doesent work will try your solution.

please post the solution, unless the billion has a feature i dont know about, with just that equipment i cant think of a way to do what u want

 

[dalmine007]

I tried today with some mixed results this is what I used two Billion adsl routers,
The reason I used two adsl's is cause i couldnt get a neotel router on loan and i figured if got it working this way the neotel would'nt be a problem.

Anyway this is what I tried to do

Router A (Primary Router)
DHCP SERVER,
Ip 192.168.135.1
Static Routes
1) For Normal Adsl
Destination 0.0.0.0
Netmask 0.0.0.0
Gateway Interface ipwan
Cost 1

2) For Failover
Destination 0.0.0.0
Netmask 0.0.0.0
Gateway 192.168.135.173 Interface iplan
Cost 2


Router B (for fail over)
No DHCP SERVER
STATIC IP 192.168.135.173

Router a and b are conneccted via rj 45's

I had a bit of success today but seemed very odd, first I pluged Router A in with phone plug adsl working fine as usual then disconected phone from router A and pluged in router B adsl connected on router B. I Fire up Fire Fox and lo and behold google open's up I do a test google search I get the results
and this is when things get funny i cannot open any of the links even myadsl wouldnt open then tried google again and once again it opened.

I did manage to get full internet it to work on the xp computer I added a DNS server of 192.168.135.175 and it worked as normal but this doesent solve the problem as router A is not doing the routing XP has been told to that is a secondary route. I am sure it can be done just dont know where I am going wrong

 

[dalmine007]

Anyone with any further ideas

 

[Conradl]

You could configure both ADSL routers on your network, and then configure two gateways on your clients. Its cheap, nasty, and has several limitations, but it is failover....