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Wed Sep 22 12:45:14 UTC 1999

So now, even the age-old "litmus test" of "how do I program my Cisco to do 
that?" is a bad one?

At 01:09 AM 9/22/99 -0700, Mike Leber wrote:

>Don't mean to be rude, these questions would be more appropriate for
>inet-access, et al.  Most people on this list are national or
>international backbone operators.  Appropriate topics concern operating
>backbones.
>
>On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
>
> >
> > I'm looking similarly, but T1/PRI for dial-in support and a T3 to the
> > Internet.
> > Got Cisco 6509 on the Internet side and Ascend MAX 6000 on the WAN side.
> > Bothe managed by Checkpoint, on a Sun Ultra5.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> > > Gerry McDonald
> > > Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 9:13 AM
> > > To: nanog at merit.edu
> > > Subject:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I have a question... I am currently expanding our network to
> > > accommodate a T1 to the
> > > Internet and a 512K frame connection to our WAN.. I need to
> > > purchase a router and spoke
> > > to several vendors. I have heard conflicting stories
> > > regarding the model of Cisco router I
> > > should get.
> > >
> > > One vendor <vendor a> tells me that I should get a 2620 with
> > > 2 Wan Ports and the other
> > > vendor <vendor b> is telling me that I might compromise my
> > > security by using one router for
> > > WAN and Internet connections. Their suggesting that I get 2
> > > routers one for my Wan and
> > > another for the Internet connection...
> > >
> > > Vendor B is telling me that it would be possible to enter our
> > > wan without touching our firewall
> > > should someone be able to hack into our IOS on the router...
> > >
> > > I decided to go the experts... I would appreciate any helpful
> > > suggestions.
> > >
> > > Thanks...
> > >
> > > -Gerry
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
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