we use a lot of Sangoma (www.sangoma.com) and SBE (www.sbei.com) cards. cyclades (www.cyclades.com) work well too, but i havent used these as much, because sangoma fulfills all our needs. Sangoma has an easy-to-use curses-based configuration utility, too, which you might like. as far as x86 hardware goes, anything will work. you cannot get a slow enough computer today. a 200mhz with 64mb ram wouldn't even break a sweat routing the 1.5mbps of a T1. > We're about to install a T1 (1.544 Mbps) from SBC in Los Angeles > between two locations for use as a WAN. I'd like the termination on > both > ends to be a Linux system. > One end will route internet packets to the other end, using NAT as > is > done now for both internal LANs. The ADSL in one location will be > removed, and only the internet connection in the other location kept, > because there's still excess bandwidth available. > Any recommendations on hardware that is known to work well with > Linux > and SBC (what used to be PacBell)? Unless there's a good reason not > to, > I'd like the CSU/DSU to be an internal card. > Assuming the T1 is kept pretty full, any recommendations on the > slowest x86 system that would keep things moving? We tend to keep > computers that have been replaced by better hardware around for uses > like this. > This is my first time for this, anything I need to watch out for > that > I'm too inexperienced to even guess? > Thanks in advance for any information. > - > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" > in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
