Leased line from BT

epswat · 19 Jun 2008 at 15:47

First of, has anyone had any dealing with BT leased lines, specifically 10meg on a 30Meg bearer?
Any problems with service and support?
Second, the Router they are going to supply is a Cisco 1841 which i believe only has 2 LAN ports (one WAN/one LAN??). I need to connect 3 servers directly to the internet, and this leaves me with a problem.
With only one or possibly 2 LAN ports, how can I connect the third server?
Would it be OK to just uplink a switch to the Cisco router and then wire the 3 servers into the switch?

I am pretty sure this will be OK,and want to canvas opinion.

Thanks

Elliott

epswat · 19 Jun 2008 at 16:31

Thanks for the quick response. Seeing as the BT Router is a Cisco 1841, I guess this will be performing stateful packet inspection.

Elliott

epswat · 19 Jun 2008 at 17:19

So the Cisco will not packet filter?

If that is the case, then yes I will need a firewall between the servers and the outside world.

Thanks

epswat · 19 Jun 2008 at 22:57

Thanks, how easy are the juniperfw's to use?
I have heard horry stories about IOS on Cisco hardware.

TBH, I am used to web based interfaces, such as the Sonicwall range.

Thanks for the advice

epswat · 19 Jun 2008 at 22:58

I mean Horror stories!