Re: [FW-1] Connecting 2 ISP's with Cisco 2611 and a hub

[Russell Washington <russ.washington@FW1-NOSPAMVAULTSENTRY.COM>]

Raymond!!! Ok, I found your thread from before with a different subject line
on it (bad!) It's hard to follow threads when the subject line is changing
midstream :)

Ok, first question.  Exactly how are these ISPs getting to you?  Via
Ethernet???  Are your ISPs both in your building or something?  :)

If they're coming in over serial, they HAVE to talk to routers, which will
*then* talk over Ethernet.  Sure you could put a hub between those two
routers (or put both ISPs on one router with multiple serial interfaces and
plug *that* into the hub) and your 2611, and that will get everything
physically connected.

But heck... Why?  Why not put both ISPs and the NIC to the FW on a single
Cisco router?  The idea that was advanced to you sounds like a lot of
complexity and cost with no benefit.

Second question.  You said "will do the trick."  If this "ISP engineer" told
you that this spit-and-baling-wire physical topology was going to eliminate
all the upper-level routing questions previously noted, he's, um, wrong.
You're still in the same boat you were before, still have routing issues to
think about (resolvable if you use BGP on the 2611), only now you have an
extra hub and some more cables facilitating the electrical noise :)

-----Original Message-----
From: Raymond Hoffman [mailto:hoffman@TDM.COM.AR]
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 8:23 AM
To: FW-1-MAILINGLIST@beethoven.us.checkpoint.com
Subject: [FW-1] Connecting 2 ISP's with Cisco 2611 and a hub


Hi everyone,

I received the answer from one ISP engineer.  He says that a Cisco 2611
with two nic's, one internal and other external and a hub connecting the
two IPS's and the external nic will do the trick.

Is this correct?  I thought the ISP's were to connect directly to the
router but he assured me that this is quite fine.

Thanks in advance.

Raymond
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