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11-11-2014, 06:54 AM #1Newbie
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Failover internet connection on Windows server
Hello,
Is it possible on Windows server if i have two internet connections connected from different ISP's(with Different IP's) and two NIC cards are connected, if one of the internet connection(Primary) goes down , the other one(secondary) replaces automatically. And similarly primary should take over once it is back online again. I am using windows server 2008 R2. Is there any solution? Thanks.
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11-11-2014, 11:22 AM #2Disabled
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The easiest way to do this would be to have a firewall or router attached to the windows server that has a failover configuration setup
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11-11-2014, 06:28 PM #3Junior Guru Wannabe
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You most definitely will want a firewall/router to do this for you as has already been suggested. See:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com...m=winserverNIS
In theory though you could write a "heartbeat" kind of script that would probe each link and alter the routing table upon detecting a failure. However this would be more or less a hack job.
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11-11-2014, 09:26 PM #4Web Hosting Master
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Not sure why you would want to have server fail over between two different IPs, but with Windows Server 2012 R2 there is built-in BGP router which can be used for dynamic routing.
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11-12-2014, 01:40 AM #5Newbie
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Thanks alot for your response.
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11-12-2014, 01:44 AM #6Newbie
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11-12-2014, 01:46 AM #7Web Hosting Master
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Google can, here is an example:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/networkin...r-2012-r2.aspx
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