Depending on who your users are, one possibility is to bring in a standard telephone line and sign up for a dial-up account with an ISP. The developers can dial out and come back in to your network via the ISP. That allows a true, user experience (assuming that your user base is primarily made up of dial-up accounts) without compromising your network.
That's the way we test the user experience with our web site. We also use it to test routing problems that may or may not be originating on our end. KC Smith -----Original Message----- From: Jason Kohles [mailto:jkohles@;redhat.com] Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 3:28 PM To: Chris Hylen Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Allow second Internet connection into Office Space? On Wednesday 09 October 2002 11:31, Chris Hylen wrote: > Security Pro's: > > A group of my programmers want to have a DSL connection put in their > testing area so they can simulate end user experience across the Internet. > I have concerns with this and am curious if anyone else has found a good > solution to provision their business requirement without putting the > network at risk. > I've done this using squid to simulate various modem/broadband speeds without actual hardware. You don't mention what your programmers are working on, but if it is web related this could help you (similar things could be done with a router, but I only have sample configurations for squid... http://www.jasonkohles.com/notes/modem-simulator.html -- Jason Kohles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Engineer Red Hat Professional Consulting
