Re: Firewall in Routers??

["William S. Duncanson" <william () neosoft com>]

At 12:47 3/4/97 -0500, Robert Laughlin wrote:
> > On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Andrew Smith wrote:
> > Anyone who has a 75XX and a single T1 needs to be taken out back and shot
> > by their overly generous accounts payable division ;)
>
>
> At a recent Cisco seminar aimed at corporate customers, Cisco was 
> specifying the 7500 be used in all the following situations:
>
> 1. connecting a single mainframe computer to the campus backbone
> 2. connecting a large office to the campus backbone
> 3. connecting a remote office over frame relay at 512 kbs to the campus 
> backbone. But do not despair, if you are running at 256kb, you can drop 
> back to a 7200.
>
>
> #3 implies we are over driving our 7500s.  If the 7500 is intended to
> handle a single serial line at 512kb, no wonder it seems to get overloaded
> on the backbone. 

Wonder what they would recommend for a DS1 or a DS3, then.  BFR, anyone?
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