Can I configure two WAN ports on Cisco 5505 to use DSL and new Comcast Business Gateway?
Hello,
A client recently purchased Comcast Business to increase their bandwidth. I plan on incorporating that on a Cisco 5505 and creating another WAN port and leaving the DSL connection until I'm sure all the tunnel settings (to another office and 2003 Domain Server) are successfully transferred. We purchased 5 IP addresses and I plan on using that for the new WAN interface on the 5505.
How do I set this up to aggregate the two connections. What do I have to be concerned about? What kind of routing issues will I encounter? Should the new route have a metric of 2 until I set up the tunnel correctly?
I've already looked at a blog and got the 411 on setting up the interface to the gateway. Mainly interested in the feasibility of having the DSL and Cable Modem going at the same time.
Thank you for your help!
A client recently purchased Comcast Business to increase their bandwidth. I plan on incorporating that on a Cisco 5505 and creating another WAN port and leaving the DSL connection until I'm sure all the tunnel settings (to another office and 2003 Domain Server) are successfully transferred. We purchased 5 IP addresses and I plan on using that for the new WAN interface on the 5505.
How do I set this up to aggregate the two connections. What do I have to be concerned about? What kind of routing issues will I encounter? Should the new route have a metric of 2 until I set up the tunnel correctly?
I've already looked at a blog and got the 411 on setting up the interface to the gateway. Mainly interested in the feasibility of having the DSL and Cable Modem going at the same time.
Thank you for your help!
you can use two ISP connections on the 5505 put one on 0/0 and the other on 0/1 you can use one or the other , not both, you do this by the default route, one of them is for failover only
route outside 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 X.X.108.158 1 track 1
route backupT1 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 x.x.241.177 25
track checks the internet connection on the outside interface every couple of minutes and if it goes down it will fall back to the defaul route on the backup interface untill the isp on the outside interface comes back up.
I have alot of 5505's setup with comcast as the primary because I can get 50up and 20 down and then I use a T1 on the backup interface.
route outside 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 X.X.108.158 1 track 1
route backupT1 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 x.x.241.177 25
track checks the internet connection on the outside interface every couple of minutes and if it goes down it will fall back to the defaul route on the backup interface untill the isp on the outside interface comes back up.
I have alot of 5505's setup with comcast as the primary because I can get 50up and 20 down and then I use a T1 on the backup interface.
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Thank you.
From what I read, I can't use the 2nd ISP at same time even if I'm going to a different subnet, do you agree with that?
They plan on getting rid of the t1, but I have a vpn set-up with the other office. Do you know if it just a matter of adding the "isakmp key ****** address (new external address) netmask x.x.x.x" line?
From what I read, I can't use the 2nd ISP at same time even if I'm going to a different subnet, do you agree with that?
They plan on getting rid of the t1, but I have a vpn set-up with the other office. Do you know if it just a matter of adding the "isakmp key ****** address (new external address) netmask x.x.x.x" line?
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Thank you for your help!
your very welcome.
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