> I see that Gil has a message that's going to take me most of the day to digest. <bg>
Yep, I figured if you had time enough to mess around with trying new things out you may as well have something to idle time away when you start to bang your head against the wall. As an aside, I use a SonicWall Pro 200, and most of my clients use SonicWall for their firewall/VPN solution (largely at my recommendation). I like SonicWalls for lots of reasons, mainly because they offer so much bang for less bucks than Cisco. If you have 2 SonicWall units (if I read your eMail correctly re: one behind each T1), with a single WAN port you can use one as a failover for the other. I have that set up at one client location, and it works real slick. It was a little tricky to set up, until I read the F'ing manual <g>. But once set it works like a charm. Ciao! Gil > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Whil Hentzen (Pro*) > Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 9:42 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [NF] What are people doing with cable interfaces? > > > Jim Felton wrote: > > I'm wonder how you are dealing with the two T1 lines and how > many IPs you > > had. > > I have a big ol' SonicWall sitting between me and the bad guys on each > of my T1s. It's OK, although I don't care for their nickel and dime > attitude every time you want to push another button on their interface. > For industrial use the $110 a year is OK, I guess. > > If you had 4 IPs why not do the same thing you are now? A possible > > solution would be to put 5 NICs in PC, Use 4 (100Mb) to attach > to the RR and > > Well, I'm trying to learn something new is one big reason. Another is > that I'm considering dumping the T1s to see if I can live on much less > expensive BizClass lines. (Oh, shit, I bet Big Brother just saw that and > I'm going to get a call from My Friendly AT&T rep any moment now... > kinda like the way IBM would strongarm you if they heard you were > considering Someone Else's computer back in the 6/7/80s.) > > > the 5th (Gigabyte card) to attach to your Switch on your > Intranet. You can > > run the firewall, active virus, ... on the PC and forward the > unique IPs to > > But that means I need another PC. And four more cards. Suddenly we're > talking a few hundred bucks. :) > > And while I guess a lot of folks have oodles of old PCs laying around, > I'm actually using all my old PCs. A four year old is VERY forgiving > about performance if it means he's got his OWN computer. :) > > (Running SuSE 10.1, by the way, sorry to burst your bubble, Virgil. :)) > > > the system you want on you net. This is basically a cheap > multi port router > > with all the options you want to load. There are many free Linux router > > packages out there that can even run from a floppy. > > But the bottom line is what you're saying is to configure a PC as a > router/firewall. Yup, that's one possibility.... Let's see what else > folks have to say. I see that Gil has a message that's going to take me > most of the day to digest. <bg> > > Whil > > > Jim > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Whil Hentzen (Pro*) > Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 6:57 AM > To: profox@leafe.com > Subject: [NF] What are people doing with cable interfaces? > > I've just acquired a line with Time-Warner BizClass. The rationale > behind it, let's leave that for another time. <s> > > So now I've got some pretty basic questions.... I've been spoiled for so > long, with a pair of T1s coming into the house right next to this TW > line... Kind of like the frustration at having to deal with a dial-up. <s> > > Anyways, the fellow who installed it wasn't terribly helpful (BIG > SURPRISE), nor were the folks on the other end of tech support. But > that's OK, I can experiment. > > At the end of the line coming in from out-of-doors, there's a box the > size of maybe six decks of playing cards. The line goes into it, and > there are four Ethernet ports available. Tech support says that only one > is active, but I don't quite believe him, as I can plug a box into any > of them and get out. I've got four static IP addresses. > > I'm guessing this box-like thingee is a 'cable modem'. All it provides > is access outside. No firewall, no nothing, right? > > So what do I do now? <s> > > I could hook up a single box that's running a firewall as well. Block > everything but 80, for example. > > I could hook up four boxes, too. But I'm not sure I'm comfortable having > to mess with four firewalls on four boxes; that begins to become a lot > of admin that I should be able to handle in a central point. > > So I could also plug a firewall into one of the cable modem ports, then > a hub into the other side of the firewall, and plug boxen into the hub. > > JUST CAN'T DECIDE!!!!!! > > So what are y'all doing with a setup like this? > > Whil > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
