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Question

Networking

Sep 27, 2018 5:04AM PDT

There are two internet connections ISP A and ISP B, 2 routers connected to lan. If ISP A fails, ISP B should work automatically without any intervention.

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Re: networking
Sep 27, 2018 6:45AM PDT

And what's your question?

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Guessing.
Sep 27, 2018 8:51AM PDT

Badly I bet. FAILOVER systems. Let's say that users don't understand failover well. They expect their VOIP calls to not drop when failover occurs. Or Netflix not to crash.

Nope, failover is not going to solve that issue. The apps may burp, you have to press OK or something to start the call again or the video again. This is the current state of such failovers.

You won't be using routers but a router with a failover feature. If you get a client that wants to get their existing routers to do failover you nod and wish them well.