The processing requirements for 20 users on an 8-port home-style router with integrated firewall/nat would stretch any such little boadband appliance well beyond it's limits.
My suggestion would be to setup a dedicated IPCOP firewall IPCop machine with min 500MHZ CPU and min 256MB RAM to serve 20 concurrent internet sessions with room to spare. Use any number of switches to deliver ethernet from this machine to your 20 clients. Caution: just be aware that both Shaw and Telus serve up broadband service using 10/100 network hardware, so if 10 users werer to try and download big files at the same time, that will cause a bottleneck in throughput and major slow-downs for everyone. You _might_ get around that by hooking 2 or more broadband/firewall routers directly to the cable modem so each router would get a separate IP address, however, that would not get past the caution at the start of this section. HTH, Hendrik Schaink shane wrote: > Hi All, > > I wonder what the group would suggest for a router that meets the following > specs: > > --up to 20 ethernet clients > --port forwarding > --NAT > --Firewall > --Easy configuration/use, http control panel > -- VPN, QOS, Traffic Shaping, etc not required > --128 MB ram + > > My current router seems to get swamped at certain times of day. > > Thoughts? > > Shane > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying -- Hendrik M. Schaink Chief Consultant "Integrated Business Solutions & Dependable Service" InfoVision Consulting Calgary, Alberta, Canada Phone: (403) 239-0099 "The Vision: We are the partners of choice for companies and organizations that share our commitment to creating a world that is truly wise, courageous, prosperous, innovative, inclusive, sustainable and humane." --Ruben Nelson GPG Fingerprint: 1371 0927 8C3C 831F A838 C312 68BC F5DB 010D F3D7 _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
