On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Kibui Maina <mainakibui@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, anyone know how to create a fallback internet connection?
I have two internet connections, Zuku broadband (*Main*) and Safaricom broadband (*Alternate*), I usually connect my Safaricom broadband to the router and disconect the Zuku one when Zuku goes down since its my main connection problem is: users have to change their Gateway when I do this by disconnecting their connections and reconnecting them again.
I have been toying with the idea of setting up a server using smoothwall so that when I need to make this change all I do is change the gateway on the server and the clients will not have to mess/change their internet connection settings.
Hi Kibui (Kefue?) It's your router that is either primitive/rudimentary or not properly configured. Perhaps you can get a descendant of Linksys RV082 (or any other dual WAN capable router) and that will solve your problem. I am talking of those because they are cheaper than getting an Cisco capable of doing such. You can of course use Smoothwall (I've never used it) or the FreeBSD-based pfSense <http://www.pfsense.org/> to achieve the desired result. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Damn!!