Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 08:30:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Shady <rls@mail.id.net> To: spork@super-g.com (S) Cc: alk@think.com, marpat@kmtnet.com, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, linuxisp@lightning.com Subject: Re: T1 offc. resell config Message-ID: <199609111230.IAA02667@server.id.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.92.960910180558.18939C-100000@super-g.inch.com> from S at "Sep 10, 96 06:15:10 pm"
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> We're looking at a similar test in our building before we move on to the
> rest of the city... We were thinking of putting an ethernet-ethernet
> router like a Cisco 2514 between our network and the ethernet switch that
> would distribute access to our various customers. We could set up some
> filters on the router that would disallow ftp/http servers and whatnot,
> and help keep things safe for our customers. Our big concern now is
> security BETWEEN clients... The only solutions I see so far are very
> expensive; with names like Cisco and BayNetworks... sigh.
Stay away from the Cisco 2514's as well, they don't have enough power to
handle crap above T1 speeds.. We started out using a Cisco 2514, two
ethernets, and two T1's... The T1's worked fine (as far as we could tell)
but doing an FTP or similiar from ethernet to ethernet segment would
literally bring down both T1's (timeout's would be my guess), and max
thru-put would be ~200K per second. We switched to a FreeBSD box with
3 100 Mbit, and two 10 Mbit ethernet cards on a 486-DX4-120 Mhz box with
32 MB of RAM running Gated w/OSPF & BGP-4, which in turn is speaking
OSPF & BGP-4 with our Cisco.. Works rather well, and we do have IP
Firewalling setup to provide security between nets if needed.
-- Rob
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