Linksys Firewall/router
JD Runyan
Jason.Runyan at nitckc.usda.gov
Tue Nov 6 18:55:33 CST 2001
I have limited experience with the webramp. It works adequately for
a small business. I would not use it for more than 5-10 users, and that
would be if they are light users. If you are going to use this then you
should also invest time/money into a caching proxy, and a local email
server that collects your email from your isp, so that traffic doesn't
use up all of your limited bandwidth.
I would recommend a better solution to the problem is Linux (of course).
Install your favorite distro on a mediocre(400MHz +) box, and then set up NAT
using an Ethernet device, and a PPP device. I would then install a
proxy like Squid to handle caching of web sites. use fetchmail to
collect email for each user, and then turn on pop/imap for the users to
collect their mail from this server. This will allow you to limit
outbound traffic to only collect new data.
The webramp can handle I believe 2 connections at a time to increase the
speed, and although I have not done this using Linux, I believe that it
is possible to set up NAT to do this for you, but you would need some
advanced routing rules handle 2 simultaneous connections, yielding
different routes to the same destinations.
On Tue, Nov , at 12:33:30PM -0600, Tony Hammitt wrote:
> Now seems like a good time to ask this:
>
> Does anyone have any recommendations on a dialup modem equivalent of Linksys
> cable/DSL router? I've asked this at meetings before and think that the rest
> of the list may want to also know what the response is.
>
> I remember hearing about something called webramp or some such, and that possibly
> Cisco makes such a device, but does anyone have any links? Have you used one
> personally? Is it good enough to run a business off of?
>
> TIA,
>
> Tony
>
>
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