Hello all, : 1. Purchase a router which has some form of bandwidth management - this : would be expensive, rite ? You have to decide what is expensive for you. Time, money, expertise, control, or not having a software/networking vendor to vilify. : 2. Purchase a low end router with 1 lan 1 wan, and connects a dual LAN : linux before it. Will this additional hop slow down anything? Yes. But maybe not significantly enough to be a problem...depends on your pipe and usage on that pipe. Remember, it's ideal to perform traffic control on the bottleneck itself. Regardless, I'd suggest option 3 or option 1, depending on your answer to your own question in 1. : 3. Purchase a supported T1/E1 interface cards and plug it into the : Linux box. I recommend the Sangoma WAN cards. I've been using them for at least 3 years under linux, and they are well supported by Sangoma and the linux community (you'll see the driver in the distribution). http://www.sangoma.com/ I've had exactly one problem with the wanpipe/wanrouter software, and it had already been identified and fixed by the time I had filed the bug report with Sangoma. : This could be a problem for me because of support issues. What if it : does not properly? What if there are problems with the card or the : drivers ? You won't have problems with support for Sangoma's cards in the kernel nor technical support from Sangoma. -Martin -- Martin A. Brown --- SecurePipe, Inc. --- mabrown@securepipe.com
