Re: Looking to connect a second broadband connection for failover and add a second firewall, any suggestions?

From: Bubba Cooter (flcooter_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 11/29/03 

Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 21:12:54 GMT

It is in the office and manual switching is not an option since we
will be calling in thru terminal services ans it must be up all the
time. We need a box that will run a primary connection and switch
over in case of primary failure.

On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 16:08:48 GMT, Bubba Cooter <flcooter@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>We are looking to add another broadband connection for redundancy. We
>have Road Runner and a sonicwall soho3 at this time. We are going to
>install a verizon DSL line and want a box that will "join the two"
>either to combine the bandwidth or for failover. Is there a reason to
>have two hardware firewalls in line? Or should we have the firewalls
>before the lines are "joined"?
>
>TIA

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