RE: Allow second Internet connection into Office Space?

["Keenan Smith" <kc () vetcentric com>]

Depending on who your users are, one possibility is to bring in a standard
telephone line and sign up for a dial-up account with an ISP.  The
developers can dial out and come back in to your network via the ISP.  That
allows a true, user experience (assuming that your user base is primarily
made up of dial-up accounts) without compromising your network.

That's the way we test the user experience with our web site.  We also use
it to test routing problems that may or may not be originating on our end.

KC Smith



-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Kohles [mailto:jkohles () redhat com]
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 3:28 PM
To: Chris Hylen
Cc: security-basics () securityfocus com; CISSP_PNW () yahoogroups com
Subject: Re: Allow second Internet connection into Office Space?


On Wednesday 09 October 2002 11:31, Chris Hylen wrote:
> Security Pro's:
>
>       A group of my programmers want to have a DSL connection put in their
> testing area so they can simulate end user experience across the Internet.
> I have concerns with this and am curious if anyone else has found a good
> solution to provision their business requirement without putting the
> network at risk.
I've done this using squid to simulate various modem/broadband speeds
without actual hardware.  You don't mention what your programmers are
working on, but if it is web related this could help you (similar things
could be done with a router, but I only have sample configurations for
squid...

http://www.jasonkohles.com/notes/modem-simulator.html

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Jason Kohles                                 jkohles () redhat com
Senior Engineer                 Red Hat Professional Consulting