[nflug] Routers, routers, routers...

[Robert Meyer]

OK, looks like management has decided that they want to go the Cisco route for handling our firewall/router situation.  I'm looking for suggestions on which one(s) we should consider.  Our needs are really simple right now.  We need port blocking, DNAT and masquerade capabilities with the added requirement of having a single external address map to multiple internal addresses in a round robin load balance situation.

I need to figure out which models would work at what price points.  I also need to make a proposal with the ability of redundancy such as HSRP or VRRP capabilities.  Yeah, I know that our upstream provider would need to support this but I need to make the proposal.  I will talk to our provider to find out if they support the technology.

So, what routers will do what we need?  By the way, we only have two sets of lightly loaded web servers to handle for now.  The traffic is not sufficient to  require beyond what a couple of T-1s would handle (yes, it turns out that we do have bandwidth monitoring on our servers).

So, what should I be looking at for redundant and non-redundant capabilities?

Cheers!

Bob
 
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