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List:       firewalls-gc
Subject:    Re: Highly available Internet connection
From:       Shahryar Jahangir <sj () Bear ! COM>
Date:       1997-01-29 19:42:59
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An approach which comes to mind is to have backup dialup connections 
(ISDN) to your ISP. Thus in the case of network outage, you can have
minimally 128KB bandwitdh available to you.

sj

Starkweather, Mike wrote:
> 
> My company wants to move toward Electronic Commerce on the Internet.
>  One of the requirements would be a highly available, secure
> connection.  One of the ideas I have considered is two firewalls going
> out over two routers to two wide area links to two ISPs.  This is a
> pretty brute force approach.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas to share on how we might build an Internet
> connection that would approach 100 percent availability?
> 
> Thanks for all your help.
> 
> Mike Starkweather
> Anheuser-Busch

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