[Cialug] multi-homed apache ssl

[Dave Hala Jr]

You mean NAT my own private IP's inside, right?

On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 13:06 -0600, L. V. Lammert wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Nov 2011, Dave Hala Jr wrote:
> 
> > Suppose you have a router that supports BGP,  You have an internet
> > connection from provider 1 and provider 2.  Your peered with provider 1
> > and provider 2. You have a block of static ip addresses from each one.
> > You have a single domain, and a bunch of secure websites. How would you
> > configure apache so that when the connection from provider 1 dies, it
> > automatically fails over to provider 2? I'm assuming that BGP isn't just
> > going to make it work majically, right?
> >
> > :) Dave
> >
> The best solution is to use your own public IPs internally, .. that way no
> matter how the traffic arrives, the final IP is the same. That would
> require your own ASN, of course, and a block of IPs.
> 
> A simpler solution is to use two lines from the same ISP, .. for example,
> we have two T1s for redundancy, and the IPs we use internally are the same
> public IPs no matter which route is used. Since the same ISP is
> 'upstream', we do not need our own ASN as the multiple routes are handled
> at the ISP's core router.
> 
> 	Lee
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