[KLUG Members] Re: Dual internet connection devices?

[E. E. Franklin]

>
> Are there easy, hardware-style products that'll help with this?  He
> mentioned ZyWall, which will do both dual internet connections and VPN
> (which is required - he will have a VPN to us).

You could try out pfSense (http://www.pfsense.com/).  It is a FreeBSD- 
based firewall (originally m0n0wall), with the configuration done  
entirely through a web browser.  It runs from a CD and saves configs  
to a floppy.  You could use an old Pentium (or better) with a couple  
NIC cards.  It can do dual outbound connections as well as redundant  
failover gateways via CARP (2 machines to handle traffic and one  
takes over if the other fails).  I've implemented it to replace a  
failing hardware gateway with a single T1 connection and redundant  
gateways.  It's not a Windows solution, but doesn't really need to  
be, since it's all web-based.

There are even tutorials on their website to get you started:
http://www.pfsense.com/index.php?id=36

Eric