So, I'm confused... I even read the damn marketing crap. You say "a single
server." Is that a single ISA 2004 server? I have to ask because you then
say "if I want fault tolerance for both ISP's and boxes." What "both
boxes?"
Can I have a single ISA 2004 box connected to both ISP's with RainConnect
and have fault tolerance and load balancing?
t
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Moffat" <steve@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 5:37 PM
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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
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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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