Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 22:36:25 +0200 From: Len Conrad <lconrad@Go2France.com> To: muditha@seychelles.net Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Router question Message-ID: <4.2.0.56.19990620222021.00ae7ca0@go2france.com> In-Reply-To: <376D4B1C.C4964A31@seychelles.net>
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--=====================_23070113==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed >I am looking for a single IP router to connect to my switch on the main >ISP lan so that I connect my customer networks via leased-lines. I want >a router which can hadle about 12 different LANS which means I want it >to have 12 ports to connect the leased-line modems. If the leased line modems are syncrhonous, then you don't have a ton of choices, as I recently found out. www.etinc.com has new 4-port sync PCI board, it can go multi-megabit per port (I haven't found any cheaper, mutliport sync wan that are low-speed only), and can have up to 5 boards/PC, 20 sync WAN ports. And ET apparently prefers FreeBSD as a networking OS, but the do have Linux drivers. $325/port list price, but if you buy 3 you can probably wangle for VAR/reseller discount. For the customer premises FreeBSD router, ET has old 1-port ISA board, which is just fine. If you have to connect to Cisco, then ET has special "Cisco-HDLC" option. The Asus P2B-F mobo has onboard scsi, 5 PCI slots plus AGP slot (ie, video doesn't require a PCI slot). A Pentium II/350 is probably the best price point now and plenty of power to drive 12 serial WAN ports at 256 kbits/sec each, plus maybe some ipfilter-ing and ipnat-ting. Len ========================== >To save the number of IP addresses I want it to be single IP rotuer and >on the customer end I will setup another single IP router ( connected to >my router at the ISP...customer router could be a freebsd box running >NAT). The rotuer (gateway) on the customer end will have another on of >my IP addresses and also non-routable IP on its network card. The >customer gateway and my router will need have 4wire & 2 wire lease-lines >upto 64Kbps( 4 wire) depending on the customer needs connected by >leased-line modems. > >Any help and recommendations this will be appreciated. > >( ISP-switch--router-modem----LL---modem--NAT box---LAN) > >Thanx >-- >-- >--------------------- > Muditha Gunatilake > Atlas Seychelles Ltd > > Phone:304060 > email: muditha@seychelles.net > mbh3gpa@afs.mcc.ac.uk > muditha@creole.seychelles.net > :-) > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message --=====================_23070113==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" <html> <blockquote type=cite cite>I am looking for a single IP router to connect to my switch on the main<br> ISP lan so that I connect my customer networks via leased-lines. I want<br> a router which can hadle about 12 different LANS which means I want it<br> to have 12 ports to connect the leased-line modems.</blockquote><br> If the leased line modems are syncrhonous, then you don't have a ton of choices, as I recently found out. <a href="http://www.etinc.com/" eudora="autourl">www.etinc.com</a> has new 4-port sync PCI board, it can go multi-megabit per port (I haven't found any cheaper, mutliport sync wan that are low-speed only), and can have up to 5 boards/PC, 20 sync WAN ports. And ET apparently prefers FreeBSD as a networking OS, but the do have Linux drivers. $325/port list price, but if you buy 3 you can probably wangle for VAR/reseller discount.<br> <br> For the customer premises FreeBSD router, ET has old 1-port ISA board, which is just fine. If you have to connect to Cisco, then ET has special "Cisco-HDLC" option.<br> <br> The Asus P2B-F mobo has onboard scsi, 5 PCI slots plus AGP slot (ie, video doesn't require a PCI slot). A Pentium II/350 is probably the best price point now and plenty of power to drive 12 serial WAN ports at 256 kbits/sec each, plus maybe some ipfilter-ing and ipnat-ting.<br> <br> Len<br> <br> ==========================<br> <br> <blockquote type=cite cite>To save the number of IP addresses I want it to be single IP rotuer and<br> on the customer end I will setup another single IP router ( connected to<br> my router at the ISP...customer router could be a freebsd box running<br> NAT). The rotuer (gateway) on the customer end will have another on of<br> my IP addresses and also non-routable IP on its network card. The<br> customer gateway and my router will need have 4wire & 2 wire lease-lines<br> upto 64Kbps( 4 wire) depending on the customer needs connected by<br> leased-line modems.<br> <br> Any help and recommendations this will be appreciated.<br> <br> ( ISP-switch--router-modem----LL---modem--NAT box---LAN)<br> <br> Thanx<br> --<br> --<br> ---------------------<br> Muditha Gunatilake<br> Atlas Seychelles Ltd<br> <br> Phone:304060<br> email: muditha@seychelles.net<br> mbh3gpa@afs.mcc.ac.uk<br> muditha@creole.seychelles.net<br> :-)<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org<br> with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message</blockquote></html> --=====================_23070113==_.ALT-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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