RE: Regarding Xincom, RainConnect and Other Sports Stories

From: "Thomas W Shinder" <tshinder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 20:32:25 -0600
Dude,

RainConnect can install on a single server and provide support for
multiple ISPs. You don't need to install an array, although if you want
fault tolerance for both ISPs and boxes, you'd want to do both RainWall
(NLB solution for ISA Standard Edition and service aware) and
RainConnect. You can also tweak things so that you send certain traffic
out one link preferentially. It also supports publishing using its own
DNS service (they call it an agent) so that when you publish sites
through ISA with RainConnect installed, the DNS server only returns RRs
for the live connection. It works because the TTLs are very short on the
RRs.

HTH,
Tom

Thomas W Shinder, M.D.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thor (Hammer of God) [mailto:thor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 8:20 PM
> To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List]
> Subject: [isalist] RE: Regarding Xincom, RainConnect and 
> Other Sports Stories
> 
> http://www.ISAserver.org
> 
> I think I'll just visit the site.  Or just buy a Netgear 
> FVX538.  Or, I 
> could try to have a bit of patience and wait for you to tell 
> me how the 
> Xincom works.  Ha!! Yeah, like that's gonna happen!!
> 
> t
> 
> 
> -----
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> but I will defend to the death your
> right to say it."
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Steve Moffat" <steve@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 6:01 PM
> Subject: [isalist] RE: Regarding Xincom, RainConnect and Other Sports 
> Stories
> 
> 
> http://www.ISAserver.org
> 
>  How It Works
> 
> RainWall installs directly on an existing ISA Server and clusters
> multiple ISA Servers to act as a single gateway. RainWall 
> provides high
> availability and load balancing benefits to all network interfaces.
> RainWall deploys virtual IP (VIP) addresses on each network interface,
> shared by all clustered nodes. Each node maintains a unique 
> real IP and
> MAC address for each network interface, so that a heartbeat cable is
> unnecessary and switch compatibility with multicasting and VLAN
> environments is not an issue.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thor (Hammer of God) [mailto:thor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 9:54 PM
> To: ISA Mailing List
> Subject: [isalist] RE: Regarding Xincom, RainConnect and Other Sports
> Stories
> 
> http://www.ISAserver.org
> 
> Yeah, so what else is new.   Always a bride's maid and never a bride.
> 
> I guess you people are going to force me to read up on the Rainconnect
> schpeel to see how the topology works, eh?
> 
> But first, is it one ISA box with 2 external Internet connections?  A
> separate box running RainConnect in front of the ISA box? 
> (Front meaning
> Internet-facing).  Do you have to have an array?  What is 
> "extortionate"
> 
> pricing?
> 
> t
> 
> -----
> "I may disapprove of what you say,
> but I will defend to the death your
> right to say it."
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Steve Moffat" <steve@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 5:37 PM
> Subject: [isalist] RE: Regarding Xincom, RainConnect and Other Sports
> Stories
> 
> 
> http://www.ISAserver.org
> 
> In my humble opinion you, (as usual), excited 
> yourself......:)...looking
> at Greggo's mums home vid again?
> 
> 
> Rainwall for ISA 2000 was unbeatable, (apart from the manual 
> solution),
> reasonably easy to set up and was as reliable as the hardware that ISA
> was installed on...:))
> 
> Extortionate pricing though. A lot cheaper to get up off your butt and
> switch the Internet connetion manually....:)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thor (Hammer of God) [mailto:thor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 8:07 PM
> To: ISA Mailing List
> Subject: [isalist] Regarding Xincom, RainConnect and Other Sports
> Stories
> 
> http://www.ISAserver.org
> 
> So, Steve got me all excited about the Xincom DPG503 Dual WAN
> load-balancing, redundant WAN router with in-box L2TP VPN support.
> Seems
> like a great box, but most user reviews put it as a POS.   
> I've got high
> 
> speed cable as well as business DSL, so having a box that can
> auto-switch between connections for redundancy as well as load-balance
> between the two in normal operations is a real plus.
> 
> If this thing works, it would be like this:
> 
> Comcast                   PacBowl
>     |                             |
>     |                             |
> ---------------------------------
> |         Xincom Dually         |
> ---------------------------------
>                   |
>               | ISA |
>                   |
> ---------------------------------
> |            ThorLAN              |
> ---------------------------------
> 
> 
> As it is, I have assets split between both networks (2 wireless
> networks,
> etc) and I would love to put it all behind a single outbound 
> connection
> supporting 2 ISP's.   Steve is getting his DPG502 in shortly, and I'll
> totally trust his opinion to all the mofo's posting to New Egg and
> Amazon about the box, but I want a backup plan.  How does the
> RainConnect software piece for ISA work?  Is it a separate ISA box for
> each connection in an array?  What's the topology like in an 
> environment
> like that?  Would I put RC on my ISA box, or a separate box with both
> connections in it?  How much does it cost?
> 
> And are there any better "hardware" solutions for dual WAN 
> support from
> Netgear or Cisco?  I know I could google for all this, but I would
> rather get the opinions of those I know and trust here.
> 
> thx
> 
> t
> 
> 
> -----
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