Hello,
My two locations are independetly serviced by the same ISP, but in different cities. Each ISP location houses a server farm. Do you know if there is a way of joining these two server farms as if were in the same LAN? The reason behind this is for making farm server1 the backup of farm server2 and visceversa,
CURRENT
CityA CityB
LAN1 LAN2
farm server1 farm server2
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ISP X ISP X
DESIRED
CityA CityB
LAN1 [blackbox]*********[blackbox]LAN2
farm server1 farm server2
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ISP X ISP X
where "blackbox" can be (hopefully you can guide me on)a router or simply a Layer 2/Layer 1 transmission device. The asterisks represent an STM-X transmission link.
Two or three ago Gdschertz asked me some questions regarding my first posting. Hereafter I tried solving them as much as I could:
Still there is not a connecting device between LAN1 and the ISP transmission media.
* Protocol used: IP alone
* Computers are of several vendors (mainly IBM, but also a couple of ULTRAs)
* Nop, no WINS/NAME resolution used
* At first, it really doesn't have to be secure since it won't pass through routing, at least I reckon on that, but through Layer 2 path all the way.
* At this point, no encription is required. Maybe on later stages.
* This traffic is mainly Data Base and won't cross the Internet since will be handled by the ISP backbone all the way by its transmission facilities. Expected throughput is roughly 60Mbps.
any thoughts on this?
thank you.
My two locations are independetly serviced by the same ISP, but in different cities. Each ISP location houses a server farm. Do you know if there is a way of joining these two server farms as if were in the same LAN? The reason behind this is for making farm server1 the backup of farm server2 and visceversa,
CURRENT
CityA CityB
LAN1 LAN2
farm server1 farm server2
| |
| |
| |
ISP X ISP X
DESIRED
CityA CityB
LAN1 [blackbox]*********[blackbox]LAN2
farm server1 farm server2
| |
| |
| |
ISP X ISP X
where "blackbox" can be (hopefully you can guide me on)a router or simply a Layer 2/Layer 1 transmission device. The asterisks represent an STM-X transmission link.
Two or three ago Gdschertz asked me some questions regarding my first posting. Hereafter I tried solving them as much as I could:
Still there is not a connecting device between LAN1 and the ISP transmission media.
* Protocol used: IP alone
* Computers are of several vendors (mainly IBM, but also a couple of ULTRAs)
* Nop, no WINS/NAME resolution used
* At first, it really doesn't have to be secure since it won't pass through routing, at least I reckon on that, but through Layer 2 path all the way.
* At this point, no encription is required. Maybe on later stages.
* This traffic is mainly Data Base and won't cross the Internet since will be handled by the ISP backbone all the way by its transmission facilities. Expected throughput is roughly 60Mbps.
any thoughts on this?
thank you.