RE: OFF-TOPIC: bridging a T1 to ethernet

Gah, stupid OWA top-posting..
 
Anyway, you've got a couple of options:
 
One, you could go with a Cisco router and an outboard pix. This is the 'normal' method.
 
Two, you could go with a PC-based router with a T1 card. That'll give you T1-Ethernet plus
   an iptables-based firewall. XORP is a good place to start.
 
Three, you could go with a non-pix based commercial firewall. Juniper, Resilience, and a handfull
of others make a firewall with built-in T1 termination.
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From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org on behalf of Thomison, Lee
Sent: Wed 2006-03-22 9:23 AM
To: aklug@aklug.org
Subject: OFF-TOPIC: bridging a T1 to ethernet

Hey folks,
It's a bit off topic, but still techie....

We have a T1 link to one of our partners. Right now the T1 goes into a
CSU/DSU, and comes out a V.35 into a cisco router that routes some of
the subnets and locations in the company

We now want to put a pix between us and the partner. Pix's don't have
V.35 modules. Nor do they have anything that'll accept a T1. Pix's
want Ethernet. Period.

This has to be a common requirement, but so far the only solution I've
found is routers (e.g. cisco, adtran 3205 , kentrox Q2200) with T1's on
the outside and ethernet on the inside. Seems overkill to me, not to
mention complicating the communications path and giving Murphy an order
of magnitude or two more to screw things over.

What's normally done in this circumstance?

Thanks,

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Received on Wed Mar 22 09:30:21 2006