[7989] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Firewall in Routers??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William S. Duncanson)
Tue Mar 4 17:18:57 1997
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 16:10:56 -0600
To: Robert Laughlin <robert@portal.dx.net>, Brian Tackett <cym@acrux.net>
From: "William S. Duncanson" <william@neosoft.com>
Cc: Andrew Smith <awsmith@rip.ops.neosoft.com>, nanog@merit.edu
At 12:47 3/4/97 -0500, Robert Laughlin wrote:
>> On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Andrew Smith wrote:
>> Anyone who has a 75XX and a single T1 needs to be taken out back and shot
>> by their overly generous accounts payable division ;)
>
>
>At a recent Cisco seminar aimed at corporate customers, Cisco was
>specifying the 7500 be used in all the following situations:
>
>1. connecting a single mainframe computer to the campus backbone
>2. connecting a large office to the campus backbone
>3. connecting a remote office over frame relay at 512 kbs to the campus
>backbone. But do not despair, if you are running at 256kb, you can drop
>back to a 7200.
>
>
>#3 implies we are over driving our 7500s. If the 7500 is intended to
>handle a single serial line at 512kb, no wonder it seems to get overloaded
>on the backbone.
Wonder what they would recommend for a DS1 or a DS3, then. BFR, anyone?
