[H-GEN] Recommendations on routers / modems

[David de Groot]

On 13/08/2006, at 9:55 AM, Russell Stuart wrote:

> They have a grand total of 2 Windows PC's, with ancillary
> printers and what not.  Ie, tiny.

Hmmm, very tiny, my home network is bigger than that.


> I agree.  In these one-off situations a hardware solution
> is easiest to setup and maintain.

Yep, nothing beats simple hardware for maintainability.

>
> Thanks for all the responses.  I have evidently left out
> a few important details.  One was the size - its tiny.
> The other is a workable setup.  A simple arrangement
> would be:
>
>              |
>          +--------+
>          | Modem  |
>          +--------+
>              |
>          +-----------------+  +--------------------+
>          | DMS Router      |  | Hotel Network      |
>          | NAT,DHCP Server |--| NAT,DHCP-Server    |
>          | DNS-Relay,QoS   |  | DNS-Relay,Firewall |
>          +-----------------+  +--------------------+
>              |
>          +-----------------+  +-----------------+
>          | Guest Network   |--| Wireless 802.11 |
>          | NAT,DHCP-Server |  +-----------------+
>          | DNS-Relay       |
>          +-----------------+
>
> One device would probably perform the functions of several
> boxes above.  In words:
>
>   - There are two networks - the one guests use and the one
>     the hotel runs their machines on.  These networks share
>     the one internet link.
>
>   - The hotel network must be completely isolated from the
>     guests.
>
>   - The hotel must get a guaranteed portion of the
>     internet bandwidth, so they can get to the yellow
>     pages and what not even if the guests are thrashing
>     the network.
>
<snip>

> Trying to find out what products actually work was the
> real point of this email.


Ah well now I've seen a network diagram, I'd have to also opt for the  
cisco solution. It'll be expensive, but once it's up and running you  
shouldn't have any issues.

You could do all that with something like a Cisco 877 adsl router, it  
has an adsl port, and a four port managed switch with vlan support,  
so you'd have one vlan for the hotel, and one for the guests.  It can  
also be bought with onboard wireless so you could presumably put that  
in the guest vlan and you'd be all set.

It also does QoS, IPv6 and vpn.

http://cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/routers/ps380/ 
products_data_sheet0900aecd8028a976.html

Dave