[132066] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Low end, cool CPE.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wallace Keith)
Fri Nov 12 09:34:33 2010
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 09:34:22 -0500
In-Reply-To: <20101112014100.GA97649@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
From: Wallace Keith <kwallace@pcconnection.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
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-----Original Message-----
From: Leo Bicknell [mailto:bicknell@ufp.org]=20
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 8:41 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Low end, cool CPE.
I've run into a number of low end CPE situations lately where I haven't
found anything that does what I want, but I have to believe it is out
there. I'm hoping NANOG can help.
Basically think about a sophisticated home user, or a 1-5 person small
office. Think DSL, Cable Modem, maybe Cell Card or ISDN as backups.
Looking for an "appliance", very much fire and forget. I probably won't
get all the features that I want, but in no particular
order:
- Able to load balance over 2 links (probably via NAT).
- IPv6 support, native or tunnel to tunnelbroker.net type thing.
- Able to deal with "backup" connectivity, eg. Cell Cards which you
only want to use if the primary is down.
- User friendly features, e.g. UPNP, NAT-PMP, etc.
- Good manageability. ssh to a cli would be a huge bonus, at least
the ability to backup a config.
- Able to handle decent througput, probably 20Mbps/sec min, 50 would
be nice.
_ Nice firewall features.
- IDS features are cool.
I've been very happy with Peplink's Balance line (have a couple of
380's)
-Keith
