RE: [cobalt-users] switch router suggestions?

["marco" <marco@xxxxxxxxxx>]

If you really want to do this, you might just want to setup a PC functioning
as router, WinProxy will do the trick I guess...

-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jeff Lasman
Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 8:51 PM
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] switch router suggestions?


At 02:19 PM 2/29/00 -0600, you wrote:
>I need to set up some raqs to host a series of about 140 websites. I'm
>wondering if I could start out by getting a cable and a DSL internet
>connection for redundancy.

Most cable companies specifically say NO SERVERS.  I'd look carefully in my
terms of service before setting up a commercial business on cable.

Cable can be very fast or very slow.  It's a shared network, usually with
no bandwidth guarantees.  Depends on how many of your neighbors are online.

You also need a permanent IP# to be able to host commercial websites.  Most
cable companies don't give you one.

>  What kind of a switch/router should I use between the lines and my raqs?

A very expensive multi-protocol router should handle this with the
following topology:

                      /---<dsl-line>
<Computer>-----<router>
                      \---<cable line>

but of course neither the cable company or the isp would support it.

Another way to do it would be with a switch:

                       /---<dsl-router or bridge>---<dsl-line>
<Computer>-----|switch|
                       \---<cable modem>----<cable line>

But of course they won't support that either.

Best bet would be to use two different ISPs with two different
dsl companies (for example, one from Northpoint, one from Covad.

I leave it to your imagination to draw the topology on that one
<smile>.  Probably no one but yourself to support that either.

It goes without saying that both lines need to be SDSL business class lines.

And it still won't be as fast as colocating.  Or as reliable.

Jeff

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Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>


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