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Sharing Internet for Redundancy

Dear Doctor, A neighboring company with a high-speed Internet connection similar to ours, but from a different provider, has proposed that we pool our resources so that one company's connection can support the other company should it lose Internet access. A Cat-5 cable already interconnects our two data centers. I've found a number of firewalls that support dual-WAN configuration, so we bought a pair and paid for a fiber optic cable between our buildings. Alas, I can't figure out how to... Read the rest of entry >>

Posted @ 09/01/2008 4:06 PM By Mel Beckman

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Missing Incoming Email

Dear Doctor, We've recently seen a sudden increase in reports of lost email — email our users send that recipients never receive. Last month we moved our System i email server to a collocation facility, which entailed changing the server's IP address. Everything seemed to be working fine, but now this problem has cropped up. The colo facility manager sees no connectivity or traffic problems, and we're receiving no bounce or other error messages. What would cause only certain messages to be... Read the rest of entry >>

Posted @ 09/01/2008 4:04 PM By Mel Beckman

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