Dialup Firewall/router

[Tony Hammitt]

The main reason I'm looking for an appliance is that we need a couple hundred
of them, and they need to look like they aren't computers, per se, so the
clients won't mess with them.  So the used pentium solution, while cheap for
just one, would be an unbelievable nightmare when trying to get hundreds running.
We don't need squat for bandwidth, the application is an embedded system.

BTW, The entire Webramp product line was completely discontinued about a year
ago when they were bought out by Nokia.  So I think I could find a few, but
not 200 of them.

So, thanks everyone for your input, I'll look around.

	Tony

JD Runyan wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Nov ,  at 04:30:09PM -0600, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "JD Runyan" <Jason.Runyan at nitckc.usda.gov>
> >
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > Dial-up would be pretty poor performance if five or more users were on at
> > once.  Two or three usually manage pretty well unless they're downloading or
> > browsing heavy graphics at the same time, but more than that and you do take
> > quite a hit.
> >
> With all of the things I do, dial-up is too slow for just me.  The idea I
> proposed is for a best case when having to use dial-up.  I recommend
> having mail and squid on the box, so that the traffic over the dial-up
> line would be reduced to a mimumum.  Squid would cache files, and the
> mail server would collect the mail, so that 5 or more users aren't each
> checking every 1-10 minutes.  You could have fetchmail do the job once
> every so often, and generate less overall traffic.
> 
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