Witch cisco router to route 100 mbit internet?

snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote in news:1162396163.551480.113370 @f16g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:

Which interfaces and what features do you need? BGP peering, default route or...?

Regards, Lars Christensen

So you have the budget to purchase a 100MB internet connection but no money for the router. Thats funny. Nickel and dime store is ----> that way

What traffic level do you need to support? Do you need to be able to support 100 mbit/s in each direction?

If you *do* need 100 mbit/s full duplex, then cisco does not

You may wish to reconsider whether you really need a router. What features are essential? Because Cisco has a number of devices that it classifies as *switches* that have more than enough performance for what you listed. A number of those "switches" offer advanced layer 3 (routing) services.

Hey All.

Well we are not gonna buy 100mbit internet. Our server it in a "server Park" if you know what that is :P

I just want a normal defualt cisco router that supports 100mbit internet. Our server is mostly Webserver and FTP connection. Thats all.

Walter Robers> >

Hello snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com,

Why not go for a firewall of some sort instead?

Fortigate FG-60 should give you enough performance plus some security.

It sounds as if you do not require the ability to handle two DS3 channels (2 x 44.736 megabits/s). It sounds like what you need is a router with WAN interface that is 100BaseT. Or is it 100BaseFX that you need? If you -are- looking for a fibre connection, then SX or LH/LX or SZ ??

Unfortunately you did not answer my question, "What traffic level do you need to support?"

If *all* you need is a router with a 100BaseT interface and it must be "inexpensive", then go to the nearest electronics or "business supplies" store and buy a 5 port router for about 25 euros.

Though with the requirements you have defined so far, I don't see why you don't just plug your server -directly- into the infrastructure provided by the server farm. You haven't given us any reason yet to think that you need anything more than a 100 Mbit/s ethernet interface, which even the least expensive NIC (Network Interface Card) supports these days. Why bother with a router at all?

Walter Roberson skrev:

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Okay. At the server park, we got 100mbit Internet. S0, i just waht to know witch cisco router that supports 100mbit. And i need a router because we only got 1 ip adress. So witch cisco router does support that? And ignorrer that it has to be cheap.

You need a firewall most likely. Your routing is being done at the server farm most likely. You will plug the ethernet cable provided to you from the server farm to the firewall and configure the firewall's interface as outside, then you take another patch cable and plug it from the firewall to the server you are using (or switch) and configure that interface to be the inside interface. Then you configure the firewall to perform what is called NAT to appear to come from the external interface IP address. If this is all you are doing you could look into an ASA firewall from Cisco

Cisco's routers that support 100Mbps start around $5000-$7000, but what you get for that is alot of stuff that you won't need. They have other devices that do what you want, but they don't call them routers. If you are getting a direct ethernet feed in, most likely you don't need a router (as what Cisco defines as a router).

As other people have suggested, you most likely want a firewall, one that will do NAT, probably some sort of VIP mapping, and as a bonus, throw in some security and filtering.

Personally, I'd go with a Juniper/Netscreen SSG-5 or FortiGate F60A or F100A firewalls, although Cisco has their ASA boxes as well.

That much more closely matches what you are wanting, than a cisco router.

It'll let you throw up multiple machines behind your single IP, map in some ports externally, block attacks, etc.

Hello Henrik,

You may wish to investigate the Cisco Router Port Matrix:

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