[c-nsp] PIX w/ 2 ISPs

[Big Wave Dave]

I guess that begs the question... Does the PIX-515E-UR have a limit on
the number of routes it can handle/store. In my case I could easily
see it becoming a couple dozen.

Dave

On 6/24/05, info at beprojects.com <info at beprojects.com> wrote:
> Yes, but you'd have to specify all of the destination IPs that you want
> to go out the DSL line since the PIX can only have one default route.
> So if you wanted www.redhat.com to go out the 3rd interface, you could
> have something like:
> 
> route outside 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 (whatever the T1 IP is)
> route 3rdint 209.132.177.0 255.255.255.0  (IP of dsl)
> 
> Big Wave Dave wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > I currently have a T1 with a PIX behind it.  I'm having issues with
> > developers in our company constantly download isos for various
> > distributions.  The downloads are a legitimate business need, and
> > aren't duplicates (we post the downloads to an internal repository).
> >
> > However, these downloads tend to saturate the T1.  It has been
> > suggested that we buy a cheap DSL connection... have a computer
> > connected to it... and download to it.  I don't like the idea of
> > ANOTHER thing to firewall, manage, etc.  Even getting another T1 and
> > bonding it with my current connection would only give me half of what
> > some DSL companies are offering these days... and I don't need upload
> > for this stuff.
> >
> > SO... My idea... Could I simply use another interface on my PIX for
> > the the DSL connection, and make specific routes on my PIX to send
> > downloads (i.e. downloads.redhat.com) across the DSL connection?  I
> > would prefer to avoid putting an additional router between the ISP
> > connections and the PIX.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dave
> >
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