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We are a small shop that has two locations currently connected by a pair
of cisco 1601 (ethernet/serial only) routers driving a T-1. We are
wanting to change our connection from the T-1 to a wireless connection
provided by a local ISP. This new connection is provided to us as an
ethernet. As we are using different IP subnets in both locations we need
to replace our ciscos.
Whatever happened to cheap two port ethernet routers? Everything I've
seen is focused on broadband. We have no need of firewall capabilities.
We have no need of PPPoE. Being able to establish a IPSec VPN tunnel
between two of them might be nice (but not neccessary as the ISP is
already encrypting the data transparently for us). All we need is is two
ethernet ports (100mb) and enough routing sense to redirect traffic
(probably via higher metric static routes) to our checkpoint box (which
will establish a VPN tunnel through the internet as a backup) when the
wireless connection goes down.
My solution is a NetBSD powered pc with two ethernet cards in it, but
there is some reluctance by the powers that be on that. It would be
preferable that if I get run over by a beer truck that somebody might have
a chance of figuring out what I cobbled up.
--
Frank Stutzman
Mid-Columbia Family Health Center
We are a small shop that has two locations currently connected by a pair
of cisco 1601 (ethernet/serial only) routers driving a T-1. We are
wanting to change our connection from the T-1 to a wireless connection
provided by a local ISP. This new connection is provided to us as an
ethernet. As we are using different IP subnets in both locations we need
to replace our ciscos.
Whatever happened to cheap two port ethernet routers? Everything I've
seen is focused on broadband. We have no need of firewall capabilities.
We have no need of PPPoE. Being able to establish a IPSec VPN tunnel
between two of them might be nice (but not neccessary as the ISP is
already encrypting the data transparently for us). All we need is is two
ethernet ports (100mb) and enough routing sense to redirect traffic
(probably via higher metric static routes) to our checkpoint box (which
will establish a VPN tunnel through the internet as a backup) when the
wireless connection goes down.
My solution is a NetBSD powered pc with two ethernet cards in it, but
there is some reluctance by the powers that be on that. It would be
preferable that if I get run over by a beer truck that somebody might have
a chance of figuring out what I cobbled up.
--
Frank Stutzman
Mid-Columbia Family Health Center