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 to achieve the desired result.


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