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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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    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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    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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    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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    Thanks alot for your response.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DMDM View Post
    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.
    Can you share any link for assistance?

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    Quote Originally Posted by akbangesh View Post
    Can you share any link for assistance?
    Google can, here is an example:
    http://blogs.technet.com/b/networkin...r-2012-r2.aspx

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