On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Paul Crittenden wrote:
[Sorry, major career changes have lagged my response time significantly,
inducing high latency in my e-mail...]
> FYI, we have a T1 connection. I have a DecAlpha Personal Workstation,
With just a T-1, I think you'll find almost anything will fit the bill,
but you'll want to make sure it's optimized to have large buffers.
> 250mHz, 128Meg of ram, running Tru64-UNIX, and the AltaVista Firewall 97 as
> our current firewall. The reason we are changing is because Firewall 97
> was under their Campus Wide Licensing Agreement but is no longer. We would
> have had to have bought Firewall 98 plus liscensing. Linux is free more or
> less.
If you still get to keep the machine and OS, then there's no reason for
not investigating running something like the Firewall Toolkit on the
current machine (I haven't tried to compile it on Digital Unix though.)
You could run Linux or NetBSD on the Alpha and save the PC for redundancy,
or use both and try to gain some load sharing, maintenance windows, etc.
> This is our second year for this configuration and our current firewall has
> run fine. The only time we have seen problems, minor at that is at the
> beginning of the semester before the students have a lot of classwork and
> they are bored.
> The other time is at the end of semester when they are trying to finish
> papers and stuff like that. So, how does this additional info fit into the
> picture?
It helps significantly - in my about-to-be-last job the latency issues
with streaming media were going to be a problem when I got to the point
where I'd allow it to certain network segments, but that was strictly
based on large ammounts of bandwidth and professional-quality usage.
You'll probably find as time moves forward that non-HTTP streaming media
will consume more and more bandwidth (hence the banning of some particular
products in campuses that have significant bandwidth recently) - as long
as it's the 64k CODECs and you can do the math on available bandwidth,
things should be fine.
Paul
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