Re: Speeds and feeds

[tqbf () secnet com]

> I'm working with a company currently using a T1 which becomes very
> sluggish when engineers do many FTP and HTTP sessions through a state
> firewall on a Netra-1 (firewall is not a bottleneck).  They're thinking
> of upgrading to a T3 with a fast proxy server (+ VPN) since they also
> are running out of IPs, and internal systems are getting hit by external
> packets.

Whoah. Are you sure you're saturating the DS1 and not the router? Do you
have numbers to back up moving to a DS3? How big is this company? I ran a
large ISP for a couple years, and I have never seen a non-content-provider
or ISP that needed a DS3.

Highly recommended tool: MRTG, the Multi-Router Traffic Grapher, which
polls SNMP devices and throws up nice graphs in HTML. You can find it at
http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/mrtg.html.

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