We have two internet connections with two different vendors, but when I tried to set up our firewall to load balance it didn't work very well, so I have it set so some of the schools use to one connection and others use the other, a crude form of load balancing. So if one fails, it would take me a minute or so to change the firewall config to put all the traffic on the working one. Good enough for school purposes.

On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 1:27 PM Leslie, Ben <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Just wondering if any schools operate with a backup or failover ISP connection?

If so, do you run it though a dedicated failover device, in know some firewalls have dual WAN ports for such scenarios or did you configure weighted default gateways on an edge switch or router?

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Ben Leslie Battenkill Valley Supervisory Union 802-375-2589 802-375-6409

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