Linksys Firewall/router

[JD Runyan]

I have limited experience with the webramp.  It works adequately for
a small business.  I would not use it for more than 5-10 users, and that
would be if they are light users.  If you are going to use this then you
should also invest time/money into a caching proxy, and a local email
server that collects your email from your isp, so that traffic doesn't
use up all of your limited bandwidth.  

I would recommend a better solution to the problem is Linux (of course).
Install your favorite distro on a mediocre(400MHz +) box, and then set up NAT
using an Ethernet device, and a PPP device.  I would then install a
proxy like Squid to handle caching of web sites.  use fetchmail to
collect email for each user, and then turn on pop/imap for the users to
collect their mail from this server.  This will allow you to limit
outbound traffic to only collect new data.  

The webramp can handle I believe 2 connections at a time to increase the
speed, and although I have not done this using Linux, I believe that it
is possible to set up NAT to do this for you, but you would need some
advanced routing rules handle 2 simultaneous connections, yielding
different routes to the same destinations.

On Tue, Nov ,  at 12:33:30PM -0600, Tony Hammitt wrote:
> Now seems like a good time to ask this:
> 
> Does anyone have any recommendations on a dialup modem equivalent of Linksys
> cable/DSL router?  I've asked this at meetings before and think that the rest
> of the list may want to also know what the response is.
> 
> I remember hearing about something called webramp or some such, and that possibly
> Cisco makes such a device, but does anyone have any links?   Have you used one
> personally?  Is it good enough to run a business off of?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> 	Tony
> 
> 

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