Re: New ADSl connection & Router?

Ken,

That pretty much describes the planned setup except that it hopefully will be an
outbound only setup. The CFO might change that. He wants to be at home and able
to  open a 600Mb spreadsheet from the network with his 333Mhz 64Mb PC. The real
fun may come next year when we hope to use the Iseries with Domino for mail
server. This system will be on the other side of a frame relay/routers in the
WAN/intranet. If the planned resources for that time don't measure up I am sure
I'll be back.

The local telco was purchased a couple of years ago by a company that was formed
from several mom and pop exchanges and their network/ISP company.  The advertise
as being a local/rural friendly company bring high speed internet to the rural
areas. However...they are now a very large company overnight. Thus they are
insisting that to get ADSL you have to use their included ISP.

Thanks for all the help.

Roger Vicker, CCP

"Sims, Ken" wrote:

> Hi Roger -
>
> >I am looking into the option of getting an ADSL connection for a
> >customer. I know that there will need to be an ADSL modem. I KNOW
> >THERE WILL be a firewall (probably Sonicwall-XPRS2). What I haven't
> >been able to find the documentation for is if they will need a router
> >as well. Does the firewall provide that function? If not is the router
> >needed between the modem and firewall or firewall and intranet
> >(switch)?
>
> The firewall provides NAT.  Assuming that the ADSL connection has an
> Internet Service Provider at the other end, you don't need a router; the ISP
> provides the routing functions.  You just hook the ADSL modem to the WAN
> port of the firewall and the LAN switch to the LAN port of the firewall.
>
> If they have servers that need to be WAN acessible, those need to have a WAN
> IP address and be hooked to the DMZ port.  The firewall does provide the
> routing functions to direct traffic to the LAN or DMZ ports.
>
> Ken
> Southern Wine and Spirits of Nevada, Inc.
> Opinions expressed are my own and do not necessarily represent the views of
> my employer or anyone in their right mind.

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