> 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas H. Ptacek The Company Formerly Known As Secure Networks, Inc. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.enteract.com/~tqbf "If you're so special, why aren't you dead?"
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