Strictly speaking, although John's message is mostly correct, I don't think it's correct when describing the Sonicwall as <not> a router.
Router: Operates at level 3 or above, enables traffic between different subnets. Bridge: "Translates" from one protocol or transport to another and is usually transparent. When you place a CSU/DSU in a Cisco router, you are <adding> functionality to the basic routing capability, not using routing functionality(turning it into a "2 in 1" device). And, like many other firewalls the Sonicwall is fundamentally a router with firewall capabilities. But otherwise I agree fully, because a Sonicwall does not have <bridging> capability, you need the Cisco 1700. Tony Su -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of John Dean Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 9:22 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [SonicWALL]- sonicwall as a router The other replies were correct. T1's aren't an Ethernet connection, it's a smart jack, and requires a WIC in the router, or at least a CSU/DSU before a router, depending on the router and it's capabilities for various interface cards. The sonicwall doesn't have this capability, and being a firewall rather than a router, couldn't replace the functionality of a cisco or other router. Hope this helps. J -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Vogt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 10:58 AM To: 'Sonicwall (E-mail) Subject: [SonicWALL]- sonicwall as a router Hi all, This may be a simple question, but I can't seem to figure it out. I have a sonicwall DMZ at a customer site. They currently have a setup like this with XO Communications as the ISP. T1----cisco 1700----sonicwall---Lan. Cisco has an external ip, sonicwall has external ip and lan clients use the sonicwall as the default gateway and the sonicwalll performs nat. Everything works fine. The customer is changing ISP to MCI Worldcom. I would like to remove the Cisco from the configuration so it will look like this. T1---sonicwall---Lan (with sonicwall performinng Nat). Seems pretty simple to me. I asked one of the techs at MCI if I could use the sonicwall in place of the Cisco and he said yes. So I tried to set this up and cannoteven get WAN Link lights to flash on the Sonicwall. Infact, after screwing with this for way to long, I tried the sonicwall connected directly to the T1 connection on each provider (XO and MCI)- Still no lonk lights. I treied hooking a computer directly up to the T1 and cannot get Link lights. So, is it possible to use the Sonicwall directly connected to the T1 data line? Do I have to use the Cisco? Any help is appreciated. Thanks Jeff --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude/F-Prot Virus] =================================================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the body of the email put the following: unsubscribe sonicwall your_name The archive of this list is at http://www.mail-archive.com/sonicwall%40peake.com/
