Hi Tikiri
If you can manage with only Layer 3 capable routing (Layer 4 is Transport = TCP/UDP right?), look at a suitable Layer 3 switch.
Allied Telesyn here in NZ make the Rapier 16fi which is 16 100BASE-FX fibre ports and a WAN interface. You can VLAN the interfaces and add some routes between them, if you find you need a higher PPS you can whack a router/PC on the expansion ports.
Regards
James
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On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Tikiri Wicks wrote:
Be gratefull if anyone can give me a pointer here...
I need a router with 14 fibre ports. The thing is I don't want to spend 25,000 Plus on a router like a Cisco 4000 series or a top of the line Nortel. We don't need terrabits of routing capability and hundreds of wan
Hi James THe system is currently running using an Intel fibre switch. The problem is that it is practically impossible to implement a decent firewall across the network segments with just VLAN's. Using ARP spoofing it is possible to even totally shut off entire segments of the network just from one PC. Mac Address based VLAN's is a headache to try and maintain and even that can be fooled by simple mac spoofing tools. This is the reason I need a Layer 4 capable device that can route from one port to the other while and at the same time enforce some layer 4 firewalling. If only a PC could have the stability and performance of one of these switches a Linux router with multi port fibre cards would have worked beautifully. Cheers Tikiri ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Barry Spooner" <jbs3(a)cs.waikato.ac.nz> To: "Tikiri Wicks" <tcwicks(a)maxnet.co.nz> Cc: <nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 5:16 AM Subject: Re: [nznog] Router Info ports etc.. What I'm looking for is a router than can do full layer 4 routing on 14 fibres, each running at no more than 100 Mbps.
Any ideas ?
Cheers
Tikiri