BB> Hi y'all . . . . . I've got a few quick questions: BB> 1. What percent of WISP's are doing web caching? What products are you using for BB> this? Is it a good thing? Pros/Cons?
Depending on your customer base. The more customers you have the better a caching is working. But if you don't have a lot then it gets close to pointless because you will not have enough cached to really make a difference. For example a while back I did some tests. 100 dialup lines. Running webproxy on them for a week. In that week I saved 5Gigs of bandwidth. Since this was a redirect in router each time the webproxy was having issues the customers could not surf. So after it caused problems a couple of times in about a months period I pulled it because the chance of going down for a hour or two to save 5Gig of traffic wasn't worth the hassle. However say your having 100-150 highspeed customers and you close to maxing out a T1 you might with help of web-proxy be able to easily add another 20-50 users on that T1 before you need to get a second T1. BB> 2. Is anyone firewalling their customers? If so, what products are BB> used? Is it a good thing for a WISP to be firewalling their customers BB> connection or should they be providing an 'unaltered' BB> internet connection (e.g. the recent Blaster worm.....should the BB> WISP be blocking those ports)? I pretty much run straight pipes to my customers. Firewalling is up to them. However I do have some firewalling blocks that prevent some of the newer worms from spreading FROM my clients and some rules preventing worms from getting TO my clients. But mainly FROM. Since we also don't allow servers I have no qualms in blocking inbound port 80 and 135-139 to my clients so far not had a single complain about that (but then also we don't allow servers so the only ones that would complain are the ones that try to run servers so a catch 22 for them). BB> 3. A system like Mikrotik does the QOS/Bandwidth Mgmt. and authentication, BB> but does it also do 1. and 2. ? Does a guy need separate boxes for these functions? Absolutely a correctly installed and setup MT unit in the right spot of your network can do all of these things for you. I can do all of the above on my Core MT router right now the only thing I don't do on it is web-proxy but all I need to do is basically flip (enable) a firewall rule and the web-proxy is running. BTW web-proxy is a great way to kill of and prevent none html programs using port 80 such as Kazaa and other filesharing applications. Because they can not function on port 80 through a webproxy. BB> Thanks, Best regards, Eje Gustafsson mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The Family Entertainment Network http://www.fament.com Phone : 620-231-7777 Fax : 620-231-4066 - Your Full Time Professionals - -- BB> Bobby Bounds BB> Airwave Internet, LLC -- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] ----------ANNOUNCEMENT---------- Don't forget to register for WISPCON IV http://www.wispcon.info/us/wispcon-iv/wispcon-iv.htm The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) Archives: http://archives.part-15.org
