2 routers one lan

In article , introuble wrote: :I have a situation on my new job... I have 2 gateways installed on 2 :servers and I need to find a way to use one as a backup.

Vincent C. Jones, "High Availability Networking using Cisco routers".

See also his web site for an introduction to the topic.

You could setup HSRP on the routers and make the router with the T1 HSRP active. You could then further setup preemtion and interface tracking so when the T1 becomes unavailable the the DSL router would move from Standby to Active and take over. For more information about this see:

You could setup HSRP on the routers and make the router with the T1 HSRP active. You could then further setup preemtion and interface tracking so when the T1 becomes unavailable the the DSL router would move from Standby to Active and take over. For more information about this see:

I really don't have access to the router, I have access to the firewall, which is a watchguard. Is there any other way around this?

introuble mumbled:

Apply a higher metric to one route.

Have two default routes, one with a metric of 1 pointing to the interface connected to the T1, and one with a metric of 10 pointing to the interface connected to the DSL service.

Traffic will never hit the DSL service unless the T1 goes down/is unreachable.

DaZZa