On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 12:02 PM, sean darcy <[email protected]> wrote: > My asterisk machine has 2 nic's. One nic (ETH0) is connected to a cable > modem. The other nic (ETH1) is connected to an internal lan. The > internal lan also has access to the internet. > > The cable service, Time-Warner RoadRunner, is great when up, but is not > reliable. And sip connections are excellent. The connection through the > internal lan (Verizon DSL) is reliable but lousy. Sigh. > > When the cable is down, the interface connection to the cable modem > stays up. An ifconfig shows ETH0 as up. The only way to tell is to ping > an outside address. > > I thought of bonding. But that won't work since it will see ETH0 as up, > even if the cable service is down. > > Is there a way to implement network failover that actually checks for > true internet connection? This way I can keep my sip connection up, even > if degraded. > > sean > > > > -- > _____________________________________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: > http://www.asterisk.org/hello > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >
To be honest, I'm not sure Asterisk could do that, but I could be wrong. I've tried to fool with multiple interfaces in the past and as I recall Asterisk can only bond to 1 interface. However, if anyone else knows different I'd LOVE to find that they changed that :D -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
