Hi all, I’d appreciate advice as to how to implement a secondary source of upstream data in our small ISP.
Our normal incoming bandwidth arrives at our master router via the provider’s fibre, so the IP address of that is the first default route in our master router.
The network is NAT, so in the Routes in our master router there is a route specified for each subnet, for example:
default outgoing route 0.0.0.0/0 123.123.123.1 (ip address of the upstream provider’s interface)
route to access point 10.10.30.0/24 192.168.2.20 (which is the address of the RB at the access point)
We have secured another upstream bandwidth provider, which terminates at another part of our network. Let’s say this is presented at our router 192.168.2.30, and the ip number of the provider’s interface is 234.234.234.1.
If I want to run the above access point from this new provider, I think I will need to put a similar entry to the one above in that routerboard, so it will have:
default outgoing route 0.0.0.0/0 234.234.234.1
route to access point 10.10.30.0/24 192.168.2.30
My questions are these:
- Is the above correct?
- Will I need to disable the route to the access point in the original master router, or will it not matter if that route is left in since traffic from that access point will not then be accessing the upstream bandwidth via the master router?
Then of course I could put the master route to the original provider in as a backup default route should the new one fail.
Input is appreciated!
Andy