From: Todd Veillette (tveillette@myeastern.com)
Date: Tue Jan 13 2004 - 21:41:25 GMT-3
Linksys also has one that just came out that does stateful, dhcp, 8 port
10/100, etc, etc, and supports 50 IPSEC tunnels.
-TV
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ertai Wizard" <ertai_wizard@hotmail.com>
To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 6:47 PM
Subject: FW: OT:Fault tolerant CEO's home network setup.
> Try
>
> Hawking FR24 Dual WAN Broadband Router - US $65.00 retail
> Xincom Twin WAN Router (XC-DPG402) - US $200.00 retail
> Symantec Firewall/VPN200 (a.k.a. Nexland pro800Turbo) - US $900.00
> retail
> etc...
>
> In these routers, they provide NAT (or Stateful inspection in Symantec
kit),
> DHCP Client IP addressing, Static Addressing, and DHCP server
functionality.
>
> They provide fault tolerance; and to a limited degree, load balancing
across
> both WAN connections.
>
> Anyway, ask the customer does he watch the Red Green show? Does he need
> duct tape? Eh? I hear you can duct tape two DSL/Cable modem routers and
> create a new fangled contraption that might work.
>
> :-)
>
>
>
>
> >From: "Andrew Moriarty" <amgroupstudy@hotmail.com>
> >Reply-To: "Andrew Moriarty" <amgroupstudy@hotmail.com>
> >To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> >Subject: OT:Fault tolerant CEO's home network setup.
> >Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 00:53:20 -0500
> >
> >Ever have the feeling that you are missing something incredibly basic
that
> >will make you look stupid later? I do right now, and I hope someone can
> >help.
> >
> >The scenario: The customers CEO often works from home. He accesess
company
> >servers in california, and he lives in Canada. Because of where he
lives,
> >all he can get at his house is a relatively basic DSL from one provider,
> >and a basic cable modem setup from another. Both of these are "Home user"
> >type setups, with addresess assigned by DHCP. The DSL provider is
> >frequently down for a day or more. Problem is, thats the high speed
> >connection! The cable in this area is much slower, and not much more
> >reliable. (Don't ask me to explain why this so- it just is!- and before
> >anyone makes any canada jokes, yes he can get a canoe at the local
> >supermarket, all the TV netoworks carry hockey, and yes, there are wild
elk
> >running around in the parking lot)
> >
> >The CEO has a relatively robust home network- a unix based firewall, and
a
> >half dozen computers behind it.
> >
> >His goal is to have seemless fail-over, for as cheap as possilbe. He
wants
> >to be connected in to a contact management system all day long, and not
> >worry about which ISP is up or down. In other words, he might buy a
router
> >or two, but he won't upgrade his personal "Home" service to a business
> >class service. (its not available in that area anyways)
> >
> >Each ISP provides him with a public IP address. Right now he only uses
one
> >of them, and uses NAT on his unix firewall to provide internet access for
> >his six machines. He wants to add the second ISP to the configuration, to
> >povide fault tolerance.
> >
> >I've suggested buying a router and connecting it to both ISP's, and using
> >one interface as the primary and one as the backup, with static routes
and
> >NAT.Cheap, simple solution. Problem is, if one ISP fails, there goes his
> >public address that the NAT is using, and he'll have to log out of his
> >contact managment software, and restart his session, potentially loosing
> >data. He does NOT want to do that. Its no good flipping over to the
second
> >ISP/NAT connection, because then his public address will change, and his
> >session will be invalid and have to start again.
> >
> >He doesn't have any public ip addresses inside his house, can't get any
> >either with the services on offer in that area. He's not going to do
> >anything complex like run BGP etc. The ISP's won't let him anyways.
> >
> >I'm not sure I can solve his problem, but I've got a tickle in the back
of
> >my mind about something, thinkingI saw this somewhere before. I even got
> >out my Halabi and Doyle books and re-read some stuff.
> >
> >Does anyone have any suggestions on what to do here? Or even something to
> >research.....
> >
> >am
> >
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