Hi David, I answer from my long expereince dealing with these questions. What happens after you provide simple dead gateway detection is: 1. They want to fail back to the original connection 2. They want to use per protocol policy based routing 3. They want their publishing rules to work on both connections 4. They want the ISA firewall services to report and be aware of link availability 5. They want to aggregate bandwidth for all links 6. They want to prioritize traffic to the most efficient link 7. They want to load balacing traffic based on link utilization 8. They want it all for free :-) That's why I nip the issue in the bud by starting with RainConnect. Tom www.isaserver.org/shinder <http://www.isaserver.org/shinder> Tom and Deb Shinder's Configuring ISA Server 2004 http://tinyurl.com/3xqb7 <http://tinyurl.com/3xqb7> MVP -- ISA Firewalls ________________________________ From: David Farinic [mailto:davidf@xxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 8:38 AM To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List] Subject: [isalist] RE: More than 1 Internet connection on LAN http://www.ISAserver.org Actually in case of double NATing he doesn't need script to switch gateway. He just need to use proper Metric setup for 0.0.0.0 applied via route command so if 1 gateways is down another takes over (if failure on gateway is properly reported via ICMP ) ________________________________ From: David Farinic [mailto:davidf@xxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 3:12 PM To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List] Subject: [isalist] RE: More than 1 Internet connection on LAN http://www.ISAserver.org As I understood he need just 1 active gateway connection at a time, when 1 dies other has to be activated. All he needs is some connection checking script which then switch route to available working gateway ... (above is valid if he is using NATing on both gateways interfaces if he exposes public ip to internet isa interface it will be a bit more difficult) DavidF ________________________________ From: Steve Lunn [mailto:Steve.Lunn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 8:03 AM To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List] Subject: [isalist] RE: More than 1 Internet connection on LAN http://www.ISAserver.org /me ducks from the avalanche of "Use RainConnect" responses Regards, Steve Steve Lunn Technical Support Technician - Microsoft MCP tware (GFI LANguard) - www.gfi.com