[nflug] Routers, routers, routers...

[Robert Meyer]

I *am* good at building them but management has a fear of building 'custom' stuff, even though our whole software system is custom, in-house design.  Their fear is that it would get built and I'd leave and nobody would be able to maintain it.  Very annoying.  It would be so easy to do.  I could even get our VPN stuff connected to it.  *sigh*.
 
Cheers!

Bob

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"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."
   --Leonardo da Vinci

----- Original Message ----
From: Joshua Ronne Altemoos <joshua at wolfnix.net>
To: nflug at nflug.org
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 1:06:41 PM
Subject: RE: [nflug] Routers, routers, routers...


You weren’t able to convince them to use a linux router? If I
 remember
correctly, you were quite good at building them!


-- 
Josh Altemoos
joshua at wolfnix.net
-Quis custodiet ipsos custodes
-Veritas vos liberabit

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From: nflug-bounces at nflug.org [mailto:nflug-bounces at nflug.org] On
 Behalf Of
Robert Meyer
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 10:56 AM
To: nflug at nflug.org
Subject: [nflug] Routers, routers, routers...

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
 
--
"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with
 your
eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always
 long
to return."
--Leonardo da Vinci


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