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Infrastructure advice/info

joelebowman
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We are adding a second internet gateway to the network. I need to gather reasons as to why we need a router in our environment to get upper management buy in.

Current setup: Internet connection to Firewall with 6 LAN interfaces. Each LAN interface is connected to 2 switches as a different network as 10.0.1.x, 10.0.2.x, 10.0.3.x and 10.0.4.x. So 10.0.1.x is connected to a set of 2 switches on one interface and so on for each of the others.

Any advice or considerations would be greatful.

Joel

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Marwan ALshawi
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Hi Joel

if the Internet is critical for the business then for sure you need some redundancy and high availability to your Internet service

by having another Internet link from different ISP using additional router you will make sure that if the first router or ISP has any issues the Internet will be reachable by the users using the second one

also you can have loadbalncing or loadsharing using both routers and Internet link in the case both of them are working and each one will back the other

but keep in mind that if you have one firewall the this firewall will be your single point of failure as if this FW fail then you will loose connectivity to your edge routers ! you might consider having another firewall to work in active/standby mode with the current one

HTH

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