Very Computer

by **Suresh Kumar** » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00

Hi,

We are about to get a leased line to connect our departments
intranet to Internet.

Should we use a cisco router or a linux pc with multiple ethernet
cards?

What are the pros and cons?

Suresh
------------------------------------------------------------
Suresh Kumar.R
Lecturer
Dept of Electronics & Communication
College of Engineering
Trivandrum - 695 016
INDIA

by **DanH** » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00

> Hi,

> We are about to get a leased line to connect our departments
> intranet to Internet.

> Should we use a cisco router or a linux pc with multiple ethernet
> cards?

> What are the pros and cons?

I took a Cisco router out and put a P133 with 64 Meg RAM and four NICs
in it's place to segregate the three subnets (10.x.x.x subnetted to
class C) for about 250 machines of NT, Solaris, HP-UX, etc and it's
working great.

If your line is T-3 or less it's a toss up, if you have a Gigabyte
ethernet or higher, I'd use a Cisco.

Dan
--
UNIX - Not just for vestal *s anymore
Linux - Choice of a GNU generation

by **Suresh Kumar.** » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00

We are going to get a 64K leased line and at present around 150 is the max
connections we can expect.

Will any functionality would be lost if we use a linux router?

I mean, we should be able to restrict bandwidth usage of different
intranets, denying/accepting certain web sites etc.

Suresh

> >Hi,

> >We are about to get a leased line to connect our departments
> >intranet to Internet.

> >Should we use a cisco router or a linux pc with multiple ethernet
> >cards?

> >What are the pros and cons?

> Linux will be cheaper, the Cisco will (generally speaking) be a faster
> router. It all depends on what kind of connection you're going to
> have, and how many folks will be on it. If you're getting a DS3 and
> you'll have 3000 people on it, then Cisco 7500 is the way to go. If
> you're just getting a T1 or 10BT with maybe a couple hundred folks on
> it, I'd go Linux.
> --
> ClassAct

by **N. McNeil** » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00

> Hi,

> We are about to get a leased line to connect our departments
> intranet to Internet.

> Should we use a cisco router or a linux pc with multiple ethernet
> cards?

> What are the pros and cons?

> Suresh
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Suresh Kumar.R
> Lecturer
> Dept of Electronics & Communication
> College of Engineering
> Trivandrum - 695 016
> INDIA

This is only my opinion: I've order and installed Cisco and I work for
the
company that bought Bay Networks last year.
1. "get a leased line" ? frame-relay? xDSL? ISDN? 56k?
2. Cisco is going to cost you a truck load of money, $x,000.00 just for
one.
3. if you connecting two sites then I would suggest using linux.
it's pretty easy to set up(netcfg) and you can also use if for other
things,
pop3, samba, nfs, etc..
4. I'm running ADSL at home with 3 pc's using my linux box as a router,
running a firewall and a proxy server. So what I have is a $500,00
450mhz

down

--
N. McNeill

http://www.ipass.net/~njm
soon to be http://www.linuxexsite.com

The best things in life are free

by **N. McNeil** » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00

> Hi,

> We are about to get a leased line to connect our departments
> intranet to Internet.

> Should we use a cisco router or a linux pc with multiple ethernet
> cards?

> What are the pros and cons?

> Suresh
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Suresh Kumar.R
> Lecturer
> Dept of Electronics & Communication
> College of Engineering
> Trivandrum - 695 016
> INDIA

This is only my opinion: I've order and installed Cisco and I work for
the
company that bought Bay Networks last year.
1. "get a leased line" ? frame-relay? xDSL? ISDN? 56k?
2. Cisco is going to cost you a truck load of money, $x,000.00 just for
one.
3. if you connecting two sites then I would suggest using linux.
it's pretty easy to set up(netcfg) and you can also use if for other
things,
pop3, samba, nfs, etc..
4. I'm running ADSL at home with 3 pc's using my linux box as a router,
running a firewall and a proxy server. So what I have is a $500,00
450mhz

down

--
N. McNeill

http://www.ipass.net/~njm
soon to be http://www.linuxexsite.com

The best things in life are free

by **Suresh Kumar.** » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00

Hi,

We are going to get a 64kbps leased line and the maximum connections
expected is less than 150. Could you give anything more ?

Suresh

> This is only my opinion: I've order and installed Cisco and I work for
> the
> company that bought Bay Networks last year.
> 1. "get a leased line" ? frame-relay? xDSL? ISDN? 56k?
> 2. Cisco is going to cost you a truck load of money, $x,000.00 just for
> one.
> 3. if you connecting two sites then I would suggest using linux.
> it's pretty easy to set up(netcfg) and you can also use if for other
> things,
> pop3, samba, nfs, etc..
> 4. I'm running ADSL at home with 3 pc's using my linux box as a router,
> running a firewall and a proxy server. So what I have is a $500,00
> 450mhz

> down

> --
> N. McNeill

> http://www.ipass.net/~njm
> soon to be http://www.linuxexsite.com

> The best things in life are free

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