TopDogger

The only thing that will come close to solving problems is an SME package.

I'll be running win 2k8 server on them. Half decent CPU's, 2gb of RAM, 100gb+ on RAID 1's.

You have?

I might just get a couple of these, and put an extra 1gb of RAM and some disks in them:

IBM System x3250-M2 (P/N 4190C2A)

http://www.2beshop.com/server.php?type1=Se...stem%20x3250-M2

Any thoughts?

Which thai sites are best for HD movies?

Has anyone seen any places selling 2nd hand rack mounted servers in BKK or online in Thailand?

Cheers for any advice

You can specify the client/server tap IPs in the openVPN config no? ifconfig?

Your in or around the BKK area?

Stumonster.. Will the openVPN connection stay up with no disconnects if the SSH tunnel drops back to the 2nd IP? How does openVPN handle this?

Cheers matey..

P2P?

does your config for your RDP client allow 2 remote Ips ?

openVPN config has 2 , falls back to the second - maybe your RDP client allows this

# The hostname/IP and port of the server.

# You can have multiple remote entries

# to load balance between the servers.

remote my-server-1 1194

;remote my-server-2 1194

Cheers Stumonster!

Yep, starting to think the same thing. With openVPN the RDP connection wouldn't even disconnect should one of the routers go offline? It would just cause a few packet bracktracks?

Put it on a USB stick then load from there with the windows 7 installer when prompted.

No, load balancing isn't what I'm looking for but QoS. I just want to be as sure as possible that should either ADSL connection to the server fail the other would be switched to automatically so clients can still connect/reconnect. And that a client can use a single domain to connect, but if one server ADSL connection is down, the other would be used.

I thinking I should forget all about the multi WAN and just put another ethernet card in the server connected to a 2nd ADSL router and then use some sort of dynDNS service with DNS failover?

Thanks

You want SATA Controller drivers off your motherboard disk or manafacturer website.

ok, thanks I'll check it out. I hadn't realised it was free

SATA driver

The name of the game is DNS autofailover by the look of it... Found these 2 sites..

http://support.easydns.com/Failoverfaq.php#2

http://dynect.com/

Not sure if there going to work with CNAME lookups tho, dyndns definitely doesn't..

FreeDNS claims to offer what you need: http://freedns.afraid.org/

From the feature list:

• 
  
• Round robin DNS supported (Multiple IP addresses for 1 hostname)
  
• Dynamic DNS supported, several clients for Win32 and UNIX available (not sure if your router will support it)
  

Here's a few other DNS providers: http://www.thefreecountry.com/webmaster/freedns.shtml

Cheers, I will check it out!

The RDP client doesn't allow that. I was wanting to keep things simple so was going to use the native RDP.

I suppose openVPN could be used to solve this though.

OpenVPN server on the Terminal server, clients connect to that and then RDP through the tunnel to the servers local IP. I was wanting to keep client connections down to a single click though.

U know of any RDP clients that allow multiple domain's / fallback domains etc? Any thoughts on the round robin dyn dns type setup or who offers such a service?

Thanks

Can you assign a hostname to your router with a DDNS service like DynDNS. It will handle all the IP tracking for you and you can just use the hostname to connect rather than the IP.

Both routers can do this yes, that isn't really the issue though. What I'm looking for is some sort of connectivity based DNS routing as round robin from what I can gather will still return the A record of a router even if its down. Do any of these multi WAN manufacturers offer such a service?

I want to be able to add a single hostname in the rdp clients and have it routed to the primary WAN connection but fallback to the secondry if this is unavailable.

Hi,

I am to setup a terminal server on a multiWAN ADSL router.

Each WAN ADSL link will be with a different ISP and obioulsy have a different dynamic IP addresses.

My question is normaly in a single IP situation you setup port forwarding and your done.

With 2 WAN IP's how do i go about configuring the connection IP in the RDP client if there is 2 ?

what if 1 IP is down ?

How well would Round Robin DNS records solve this issue, is there a better option?

Thanks

Have been to the rocket festival at Yasothon, the rockets are impressive in the larger classes, they make the earth rumble. A couple of years ago one went the wrong way and took out the mango tree in the Governor's office compound.

It always worried me the thought of a bunch of blokes from a local village sitting around a big bit of blue pipe stuffing it full of explosives. The inevitable drink to steady the nerves. That more don't do damage is a small miracle.

Don't play with fireworks, and certainly don't hang around if other children are playing with them.. I'd be supprised if theres a single person in the entire country who would be qualified both technically and in H&S to do anything on this scale..

I guess the guy who got his head blown off wasn't wearing the right amulet. No doubt his friends will be sitting in the same place next year..

I'm trying to avoid Terminal services on server 2k8 as it requires CALs etc, which is a bit of a pain...Thanks for the heads up about RDP encryption though, I didn't realise that.

True 8mbit

10.30am Monday.

San Fran

London

New York

Bangkok

Not quite 8Mbit's you might say...

Do either of those offer a remoteapp type interface?

Hi,

I'm looking for some software that will allow remote access to a program/programs loaded on a windows machine. I don't want any server side data to be distributed to the client, just a RDP type connection locked to specified applications that are already running on the server.

Any suggestions on good software able of doing this better than microsofts terminal services?

Thanks

Are people still having issues with the True SMTP servers being black listed? Is much mail ending up in the recipients junk mail folders?