As suggested by others, with a T1 you need some sort of CSU/DSU to interpret the signal and "covert" it to LAN type traffic. You can either go with a newer router that has the CSU/DSU built in, or if there are budget considerations, find an older used CSU/DSU and use a Linux firewall setup on an older PC with multiple NICs. If you go with a used CSU/DSU, just make sure it's output on the LAN side is 100baseT full duplex. Anything less will be a bottleneck. As for Linux firewalls. Smoothwall and IPCOP allow for RED, GREEN, and ORANGE (DMZ) ports by default and are both pretty rock solid firewalls for very little cost (hardware). -- ---- ------ Todd Young > Thanks for all the replies! > > To go in to more specific detail, the traffice from Site1 to Site2 will be > fairly high bandwidth. I believe they have a client/server app running over > it. > > I guess I assumed something I should not have. I have never set up a T1. I > thought that when you order one, the end result (from the phone company) was > an Ethernet connection that you simply connected a device with an IP to. It > looks like that may be an incorrect assumption. It looks like a router with > a T1 interface and an Ethernet interface is required. Does this Ethernet > interface have an IP? If so, do I just connect these routers to switches at > each end and voila! the sites can talk to each other (disregarding the > Internet T1)? > > I suppose this is getting a little off topic. I'm really just curious as to > how to set a T1 up. Are there any good sites explaining it? > > Kevin > > -----Original Message----- > From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org > [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of kevin > Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 7:38 AM > To: TCLUG > Subject: [TCLUG] linux router > > > Hello- > > A friend of mine (really, it's not me!) has gotten himself in too deep on a > project. > > Basically, a client of his has two locations. They want to run a T1 between > the locations, and then from one office run a T1 connection to the Internet. > Unfortunately, he know nothing about routers. > > While there might be better solutions, I was wondering if he could set > something up like this: > > 1. site 1 has a linux server with two NICs, one connected to the local > subnet, and one connected to the T1 subnet > 2. site 2 has a linux server with three NICs, one connected to the local > subnet, one to the T1 subnet, and the third connected to the T1 which has > Internet access. > > Could this work? > > If it would work, would I need to add static routes on the box with 3 NICs > or could it figure out how to send some traffic to the Internet and some to > the other site? > > Thanks! > Kevin > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list