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Router Firewall for Automatic Failover

blackVINTAGE
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Submitted by blackVINTAGE on Thu, 08/12/2010 - 12:05am.

Hi

Anyone who has a current setup of automatic failover for two internet lines in a firewall? Or are there any router firewall appliance who can do this trick? I have two internet lines, both are running with no load balancing (cause I learned long ago, that this mess everything up).

Can anyone recommend a good router firewall for trixbox that can do automatic failover?

Thanks.

Yyen

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jades
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I got it working with
Thu, 08/12/2010 - 6:51pm

I got it working with pfSense

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blackVINTAGE
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2009-08-05
I'm not sure of what hardware
Thu, 08/12/2010 - 7:17pm

Thanks ja133

I've heard of pfsense but I'm not sure on what hardware should I install it. What hardwares are needed to make pfsense work perfectly? Can it do NAT forwarding?

I can't even register when I visited the site. Do you have a manual or something so that I can check it out?

Thank you very much.



jades
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Check out
Thu, 08/12/2010 - 8:36pm

Check out pfsense.org
Basically it's an open source firewall so you need to load it up on a computer. For your situation you will need three network cards installed. One for lan and two for wan. I don't think there's any official manual, but for instructions on doing things like load balancing, everything is on their forum. Pfsense does do nat forwarding and port range forwarding so you should be all set with VoIP. People from this forum have stated that pfsense does QoS (traffic shaping) really well with VoIP, although I'm not impressed with that feature because I never got it to work well. Hopefully pfsense 2.0 will do a far better job. I haven't tested the beta yet.

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stechnique
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2008-02-21
Don't expect QoS to work
Fri, 08/13/2010 - 4:29am

Don't expect QoS to work multi-wan with pfSense 1.2.X.
You can get LAN to WAN1 setup for traffic shaping, but as soon as you failover things will get ugly unless you have another means of doing QoS on your network.



joethegeek
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2008-04-22
Sonicwall
Sat, 08/14/2010 - 8:50am

Hi,
we have a sonicwall that does all that for us: TZ 210 wireless-N
(used to run a TZ170, worked also.)

it has two WAN ports (with auto fail over) one DSL one CABLE. In fact, i have it set up, so
trixbox traffic goes out on one and other computers go out on other. (so bandwidth isn't shared)

when one fails, all traffic goes thru the remaining active WAN interface
works great, plus gives you virus filtering, etc.



wrc1045
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2008-04-20
sonicwalls work fine
Tue, 08/31/2010 - 7:16pm

we have used several models of the sonicwalls with os enhanced - all work fine for us

just as joethegeek said



johnjces
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2007-10-13
Have a look at Vyatta.
Tue, 08/31/2010 - 8:45pm

Have a look at Vyatta. http://www.vyatta.org.

I have it running on a dual core atom with the 3 NIC Jetway card (Jetway mobo) and just chugs along. I have it setup with three (3) WANS, as a failover router.

Not the easiest to setup, but once setup it just works.

John



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