Good evening, folks!
I have a new customer with two (soon to be four) offices; and when I got there
their
Internet access on both ends (Cherry Hill NJ & Manila) was a DSL mess. In fact, it's
so bad they
send 1 to 2 DVD's per day via DHL to Manila. I'm finalizing the design & costing for
the MAN
links to the ISP's, using either multiple T-1 frame relay links or fractional DS-3, in
order to
get sustained throughputs of 3 to 6 megabits.
I'm in need of some advice on the OS & software for the two to four appliances
I'll be
building for them. I started out on Charles Steinkuehler's site, as well as the linked
article
at:
<http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4772>; but it doesn't quite cut the
cheese for what
I need. Here's my preliminary list of design goals:
* No moving parts: Loading from a floppy or CD is a no-no; and if I can avoid a
hard drive
I'll be quite pleased. Having worked extensively with Apple & DEC RISC machines, I
know a floppy
is a worthless POS;
* Since the price of Compact Flash cards is dirt cheap, and since they conform to
the IDE
standard, I'm thinking of using these. This way, I can easily deploy upgrades by
mailing out
replacement cards... No big shake, as Pee Wee would say;
* The throughput (encryption rate) needs to be plenty, with room for expansion.
Fortunately, hardware is cheap, so a 1.4 gHz Athlon package is no problem whatsoever;
* I was going to purchase Intel 31xx VPN appliances
<http://www.intel.com/network/idc/products/vpn_gateway.htm>, until I saw the prices.
Oh, and
they just EOL'd these boxes, instead giving the reference design to H-P;
* Along the NIC lines, how well do the Pro/100 S (i82550-based)
<http://www.intel.com/network/connectivity/products/server_adapters.htm> adapters work
with LEAF? This looks like a nice way to gain throughput .IF. there are linix drivers.
Thanks in advance for any tips!
Cheers!
Dan Schwartz
Cherry Hill, NJ
When the chips are down, the buffalo is empty...
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