Router, Firewall Advice

[bluthund]

Hi,
here's another link you might want to take a look at. I chose this product
for a class assignment, so I cannot give you a recommendation, but it seems to have
versatility and features redundancy as well.

http://www.linksys.com/products/prod...id=34&prid=589

The router comes in at under $250.- a piece, if you shop around. It fits in well
with xDSL. Best would be to use SDSL with a Service Level Agreement. Many
ISP's provide this service these days. The plans are flexible and inexpensive.
A 256K up/down service should put you in the $ 150.- monthly fee range,
but you may not even need that much bandwidth. You can always upgrade the service.

Some negative issues in comparison to traditional Frame Relay or ISDN may be that
you'll have to deal with possible oversubscription of the service, scheduled maintenance outages,
and last but not least, the exposure to the internet.
This raises the issue of hidden costs associated with maintaining a security policy
(ie. Updates, Wireless Access if installed, etc), AV software, tech support( configuration and maintenance).
But a gateway to gateway VPN config should be relatively easy to set up.

[bluthund]

Hi,
here's another link you might want to take a look at. I chose this product
for a class assignment, so I cannot give you a recommendation, but it seems to have
versatility and features redundancy as well.

http://www.linksys.com/products/prod...id=34&prid=589

The router comes in at under $250.- a piece, if you shop around. It fits in well
with xDSL. Best would be to use SDSL with a Service Level Agreement. Many
ISP's provide this service these days. The plans are flexible and inexpensive.
A 256K up/down service should put you in the $ 150.- monthly fee range,
but you may not even need that much bandwidth. You can always upgrade the service.

Some negative issues in comparison to traditional Frame Relay or ISDN may be that
you'll have to deal with possible oversubscription of the service, scheduled maintenance outages,
and last but not least, the exposure to the internet.
This raises the issue of hidden costs associated with maintaining a security policy
(ie. Updates, Wireless Access if installed, etc), AV software, tech support( configuration and maintenance).
But a gateway to gateway VPN config should be relatively easy to set up.

[Pointman]

Thanks Bluthund, I didn't even know that linksys made routers other than the 59.99 home user type that I am using now.

[Pointman]

Thanks Bluthund, I didn't even know that linksys made routers other than the 59.99 home user type that I am using now.

[bluthund]

You're welcome.
I made a mistake regarding my statement about 'oversubscription'.
It is usually Cable that has that problem. Anyway, I hope you come right
with your network.

[bluthund]

You're welcome.
I made a mistake regarding my statement about 'oversubscription'.
It is usually Cable that has that problem. Anyway, I hope you come right
with your network.

[rufus47]

Some good suggestions. My feeling is that if you're going to take the hardware firewall route, then get a hardware firewall, like Cisco's PIX. The low-end one will probably work very well once you get it tweaked for your network.

[rufus47]

Some good suggestions. My feeling is that if you're going to take the hardware firewall route, then get a hardware firewall, like Cisco's PIX. The low-end one will probably work very well once you get it tweaked for your network.

[Pointman]

Yeah, the hardware firewall option is looking the best for me. I think it would have the less latency of all and if it ever fails, I can put an ACL on the router until I could replace the firewall unit. Again and again, Thanks to all for some of the best ideas.

[Pointman]

Yeah, the hardware firewall option is looking the best for me. I think it would have the less latency of all and if it ever fails, I can put an ACL on the router until I could replace the firewall unit. Again and again, Thanks to all for some of the best ideas.