Hi all The company I'm working for is currently looking for a WAN-backbone router/firewall. Little ASCII art that everyone know what I mean with "WAN-backbone":
------- | LAN | ------- | | ------------------------- |Backbone Switch for LAN| ------------------------- | | ------------- |LEAF Router| ------------- | | | | | | several WAN Networks connected via 10BaseT Ethernet (normal Twisted Pair Ethernet) We had a look at Nokia IP650 Firewalls, Cisco Routers and several Layer 3 Switches. Because all WAN Networks are connected via Ethernet, there is no need for a Cisco router which provides serial interfaces for WAN modems. We need about 16 Ethernet Ports (1 for LAN, about 15 for all WAN's). We also want some sort of filtering/firewalling. Because a Layer 3 Switch don't provide any firewalling and logging options, the only product left is the Nokia firewall (or similiar products). But these Nokia devices are VERY VERY expensive. I use LEAF for privat usage since two years. I'm also one of the developers and very familiar with LEAF. That's why I suggested LEAF for this job to my boss. I wrote this mail for two reasons: 1. to let you know that LEAF will be used for an enterprise (not SOHO) 2. to hear your comments about this idea The following configuration is planned for the router: Hardware: -Compaq Proliant ML370 G2 Rack (6 PCI Slots, 3 are 66Mhz 64bit), 1.4GHz PIII CPU, 128MB fault tolerant RAM -redundant fans and power supply -hardware RAID-1 (integrated RAID controller) -1x Comapq copper Gigabit Ethernet adapter (66MHz 64bit, to connect the router to the LAN) -5x D-link DFE-580TX 4 Port 10/100 Ethernet adapters (the DFE-580TX is a server card so it's not CPU intensive) This results in a 22Port Ethernet router (1 Gigabit, 20 10/100 d-link, 1 10/100 integrated compaq) Software: -Bering RC3 running latest shorewall -Latest modules for the DFE and Compaq cards (compiled by me) -dhcprelay -sshd -netsnmp (for MRTG statistics) -weblet with LRPStat (for live statistics) Do you have any comments, suggestions, questions? Thank you in advance -- Sandro Minola | LEAF Developer (http://leaf.sourceforge.net) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.minola.ch | http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/sminola - My PGP key is at: http://www.minola.ch/pgp/sminola.asc -- ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
