Dual ISP Question

Is there a way to have a router with an ethernet connection to two ISP's (and an inside interface of course) fail over from one ISP to the other when traffic stops flowing on the first one?

  • Neither ISP shares it's routing table. (it's not an option so don't suggest it)
  • Neither interface that faces the ISP's will go down (both ethernets attached to a switch)

I was thinking of something with a route-map to a known "pingable" address - force it out primary ISP interface - but how do you make it fail-over to the backup ISP.

Of course I could write a script that runs in conjunction with the route-map, but I'd really like to keep it on the router.

Suggestions??

___ ___ ___ ___ / \/ \ / \/ \ | ISP A | | ISP B | \___/\___/ \___/\___/ =A6R=A6 =A6R=A6 +-+ +-+ =A6 =A6 =A6 +--------+ =A6 +---=A6myRouter=A6---+ +--------+ =A6 =A6 +--------------+

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Posted 5 years ago by J.Cottingim in Cisco Systems

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