Topic: Backup - auto Dial-up connections for dropped broadband

[pauljclarke]

Hi,

At the odd time we all have our broadband connection drop and this means that mail is no longer delivered or just basic (however slow it is) web crawling stops.

I have a machine that is in stand alone server mode behind a router/firewall.

Is there a easy way that I can detect a long period of dropped connections to the internet and then get this server to call a dial-up connection (my ISP offers a free Dial-up as a backup) and hence retrieve emails or offer some web access?

I know that internal machine would need a different gateway address - but I'll ignore this as a issue for now. Main issue is getting mail in/out.

Thanks
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[shawnbishop]

Would require a 3 NIC, on the forum there is some info about a 3rd NIC setup

[pauljclarke]

Hi,

Sorry don't understand. I have only one NIC now as the machine is in server only mode.

I would have expected to have needed to add a modem card and then got this to multi-drop or something to get mail when the boardband link (via router) has dropped.

Do I need to run the server as a gateway, but by default tell it to route traffic locally (ie via router), and then have some switch over system that allows it to router via the dial-up when I know the broadband link is down?

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[shawnbishop]

Sorry, didnt read your post properly, I see it is only in Server mode.....

The fail safe dial up would have to be done by your router...