[swinog] VDSL/Zyxel P2802 HWL not "strong" enough for a small company LAN?

2008-03-05 Thread Olivier Mueller
Hello, bonjour, I'm not sure it is the right place to ask this, but as most the members of this list are working for companies selling *DSL services, maybe there will be a match :) The network of one of the companies I'm working for is connected to internet simply via a green.ch VDSL line, over a

RE: [swinog] VDSL/Zyxel P2802 HWL not "strong" enough for a small company LAN?

2008-03-05 Thread Kurt A. Schumacher
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RE: [swinog] VDSL/Zyxel P2802 HWL not "strong" enough for a small company LAN?

2008-03-05 Thread Spiess Bernd
n help you gruezi from austria :-) bernd -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Olivier Mueller Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 2:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [swinog] VDSL/Zyxel P2802 HWL not "strong" enough for a small

Re: [swinog] VDSL/Zyxel P2802 HWL not 'strong' enough for a small company LAN?

2008-03-05 Thread Manuel Krummenacher
Hello! On Wed, March 5, 2008 2:31 pm, Olivier Mueller wrote: > Is it possible that the Zyxel device is not the proper one anymore for > this case? I don't know the situation on current Zyxel hardware, but my Prestige 642R couldn't handle all connections for my needs. > What would you try next?

RE: [swinog] VDSL/Zyxel P2802 HWL not "strong" enough for a small company LAN?

2008-03-05 Thread Olivier Mueller
On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 14:50 +0100, Spiess Bernd wrote: > you wrote nothing about line usage Right: it's for a web-design company, so 80% download (http), 20% upload (sftp/scp/ftp/rsync), no p2p (afaik and according to ntop :-), Jabber clients everywhere. I see no traffic peaks, just these disco

Re: [swinog] VDSL/Zyxel P2802 HWL not 'strong' enough for a small company LAN?

2008-03-05 Thread Rainer Duffner
Manuel Krummenacher schrieb: > I personally would buy an Alix board from pcengines.ch (costs about CHF > 150 with 3 LAN interfaces), install pfSense on it, switch the Zyxel to > bridge mode and be happy. ;-) With the Alix, you would also gain extra > benefits like complex packet filter rules, traff

RE: [swinog] VDSL/Zyxel P2802 HWL not "strong" enough for a small company LAN?

2008-03-05 Thread Per Jessen
Olivier Mueller wrote: > > I see no traffic peaks, just these disconnects... > If it's any help to you - we've also been seeing many disconnects in the last 1-2 weeks. Not on VDSL, just plain ADSL. Typically every day we would have 3-4 quick disconnects during the night, then maybe a few in t

Re: [swinog] VDSL/Zyxel P2802 HWL not 'strong' enough for a small company LAN?

2008-03-05 Thread Stanislav Sinyagin
:54 PM Subject: Re: [swinog] VDSL/Zyxel P2802 HWL not 'strong' enough for a small company LAN? Manuel Krummenacher schrieb: > I personally would buy an Alix board from pcengines.ch (costs about CHF > 150 with 3 LAN interfaces), install pfSense on it, switch the Zyxel to > bridge mode a

Re: [swinog] VDSL/Zyxel P2802 HWL not 'strong' enough for a small company LAN?

2008-03-05 Thread Manuel Krummenacher
On Wed, March 5, 2008 9:45 pm, Stanislav Sinyagin wrote: > according to what this guy writes, > http://rockpenguin.wordpress.com/2008/02/23/installing-pfsense-on-the-ali > x2c1/ such thing as a firewall based on Alix platform requires at least > few days of work for a guy on a salary with nothing e

Re: [swinog] VDSL/Zyxel P2802 HWL not 'strong' enough for a small company LAN?

2008-03-05 Thread Stanislav Sinyagin
- Original Message > From: Manuel Krummenacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I get your point. You have to do some work to get it running, but its far > away from days. If you don't need serial access, you can skip the part > with the baud-rate configuration. The interfaces can be assigned from

Re: [swinog] VDSL/Zyxel P2802 HWL not 'strong' enough for a small company LAN?

2008-03-05 Thread Manuel Krummenacher
On Wed, March 5, 2008 11:26 pm, Stanislav Sinyagin wrote: > + 3-4 hours to read all the pieces of documentation, choosing the right > board that you want to use, all the software options that are available, > adding the wireless cards of proper vendor, chatting on this list etc. You're right, I di

Re: [swinog] VDSL/Zyxel P2802 HWL not 'strong' enough for a small company LAN?

2008-03-06 Thread Stanislav Sinyagin
- Original Message > From: Manuel Krummenacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > You're right, I didn't think of that point. As a linux guy, I know what > things like "dd" and "/dev/sdb" mean, but a windows admin would have to > spend some time to get the point. If I would have to configure a PIX, I

Re: [swinog] VDSL/Zyxel P2802 HWL not "strong" enough for a small company LAN?

2008-03-19 Thread Olivier Mueller
Re-bonjour, On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 14:31 +0100, Olivier Mueller wrote: > What would you try next? If you think I should get some more hardware > (and use the Zyxel as a bridge), what would you then recommend ? Thanks again for all your helpful answers to my initial post. I took the "Alix Board