tschmidt
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Re: questions about bonding DSL & cable; dual-WAN routers
Most dual WAN router also load balance. So as requests from the LAN arrive the router sends some out WAN1 and some out WAN2. Under normal circumstances both WAN links are utilized improving overall performance even though a specific single session will only utilize one of the WAN links.
How do you connect to the customer's system? If one link goes down from your customer's perspective it will look like a connection originated from a different IP address. Assuming you are using IPsec or SSL/TLS session it will need to be reestablished. You won't need to reboot but you will have to reinitialize the customer session.
If on the other hand you are using some sort of Cookie mechanism so customer doesn't care what IP is being used fallback will be transparent.
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