From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Dec 10 17:47:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from vinyl.sentex.ca (vinyl.sentex.ca [209.112.4.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7240214D71 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 17:47:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite-atm.sentex.ca [209.112.4.1]) by vinyl.sentex.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA63455; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 20:47:31 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from ospf-mdt.sentex.net (ospf-mdt.sentex.net [205.211.164.81]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA21449; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 20:47:30 -0500 (EST) From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: pons@gmx.li (pons) Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Router Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 01:47:30 GMT Message-ID: <3851ac5d.1297084769@mail.sentex.net> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 10 Dec 1999 14:10:06 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.isp you wrote: >Hi > >Our Company preforms the MIS for 250x remote locations . >We would like to provide a leased line WAN that connects >all 250 to main office. 50 of them would have an analog >dial-up via 56k modem as a backup. > > >Which Routes would be the best (cost, preformance, security) >can be used to provide LAN and WAN connection on the >server and client site? Well, have a look at some of the mailing lists and newsgroups devoted to terminal servers. We use Lucent PM3s, and they are OK. We are evaluating a Cisco AS5300, and it has comprable modem performance, but many more features... but it also costs more. Unless you like weekly software updates, I would stay away from Ascend. Some people however really like them, so get a few opinions. www.data.com also has a fairly extensive review, but be read the methodology. To an ISP world, the modem performance is somewhat irrelavant in that ISPs dont see such a homogeneous environment. ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message