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Gripelog 0.9

By Ed Foster, Section The Gripelog
Posted on Wed Apr 30, 2003 at 10:03:34 PM PDT
I seem to be undergoing a perfect storm of technical problems the last 48 hours. Along with our sign-up difficulties, my DSL service is down and my regular e-mail is inaccessible. So I've decided to postone publication of my first full-fledged GripeLog a week.

We still plan to send out a brief e-mail newsletter tomorrow or perhaps Friday, depending on when we get completely caught up processing the subscription requests. (By the way, I'm told those who got a time-out message when clicking the subscribe-to-list- edfoster button were actually signed up.) And I hope you'll check back here periodically as I have one major story I hope to post soon plus some other items of interest.


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Redundant DSL options[ Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#1)
by auctionhugh on Fri May 02, 2003 at 10:22:23 AM PDT

Symantec makes a firewall appliance that I think has an even cooler feature. It lets you hook up two separate fast internet connections. Thus you could hook up a dsl line and a cable modem to it. If one goes down, the other would keep functioning. Sure this will cost twice as much per month, but most of the time (when both are working) you will have twice the bandwidth. And the chances of both services going down at once are very slim. I believe it is their 200R product, info located at http://enterprisesecurity.symantec.com/products/products.cfm?ProductID=63&EID=0 ...This is going for about $600+ on ebay, but consider it an investment in your business. I've thought about replacing our $1,000 a month t1 line with one of these and a dsl/cable combo as described, saving $900/month! -Hugh

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by adminatwallis on Mon May 05, 2003 at 11:54:33 AM PDT

Are you sure of this capability?

My understanding is that the backup connection was specifically for VPN users to dial-in, and was limited to a dial-up modem.

I called Symantec Sales and they informed me that the box was not capable of increasing bandwidth.

If there is a solution out there that would pool several broadband connections I would love to hear of it though!

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I was accurate...you can connect cable AND dsl[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#3)
by auctionhugh on Thu May 08, 2003 at 11:39:42 AM PDT

I can't speak to whether the Symantec folks know what they are talking about, but their own installation and configuration guide page 16 says:

"High Availability / Load Balancing
The Symantec Firewall/VPN 200 and 200R models include 2 WAN side ports that can load share
across the two ports and even across two service providers using different internet connection technology (for example DSL and cable)."

As I stated, if you want to connect DSL and Cable to one lan, this seems to me to be the device, whether symantec understands their own product or not!

 -Hugh

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by adminatwallis on Mon May 19, 2003 at 04:16:07 PM PDT

Wow, your right, they do need better sales people. That's a nifty feature that they should be advertising. Thanks for the clarification!

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