OK, you have peeked my interest. What are the specs on your 'commercial grade' DSL. Symmetrical or Asymmetrical, 768Kbps?
What VPN are you using? 1. There is an overhead with VPN. 2. Pushing data UPstream on a DSL circuit that is capped at 128Kbps can be painful. On Saturday 07 May 2005 19:08, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: > --- Thurman Pedigo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ... There was a time I ran POTS and 56k modem with > > excellent performance. > > Hmmm... I am having a hard time figuring out all this > bandwidth stuff. We are also running a billing > software package which could be eating up all the > bandwidth. Someone suggested that I set up some > bandwidth monitoring. This is really what I need to > do. But I'm not quite sure how to do it. Currently > our confuration is like this: > DSL modem-->VPN firewall/router-->PC's > > I think that to run sophisticated monitoring, I would > need to insert a linux box with two network cards > between the DSL modem and the VPN firewall. -- Mark Street, RHCE http://www.oswizards.com -- Key fingerprint = 3949 39E4 6317 7C3C 023E 2B1F 6FB3 06E7 D109 56C0 GPG key http://www.oswizards.com/pubkey.asc ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. Get your fingers limbered up and give it your best shot. 4 great events, 4 opportunities to win big! Highest score wins.NEC IT Guy Games. Play to win an NEC 61 plasma display. Visit http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
