Routers and switches
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I have a web hosting business.
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@mroth911 said in Routers and switches:
I have a web hosting business.
That doesn't explain the need for double routers, though. If you have pfSense, why add another router? Are you just looking to upgrade from pfSense to something more serious?
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@mroth911 said in Routers and switches:
I have a web hosting business.
Out of your office? that seems odd. Is it cost effective to host yourself vs using something like Vultr?
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@scottalanmiller said in Routers and switches:
@mroth911 said in Routers and switches:
I have a web hosting business.
That doesn't explain the need for double routers, though. If you have pfSense, why add another router? Are you just looking to upgrade from pfSense to something more serious?
I'm guessing that the ISP is delivering Fiber to him.. he has to convert it to ethernet for his network, or run fiber NICs everywhere
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Correct isp is going to give me a switch to connect to fiber, they called it ppp then I will have my LAN that i have to configure my router to. Alittle above what I know i was told on port needs to be connected to the fiber switch and configured wan ppp then the other to my gateway address
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@scottalanmiller said in Routers and switches:
@mroth911 said in Routers and switches:
I am using fiber for webhosting the ERL is fast enough?
WAY faster than you have. I'm running 160/160 fiber through it and it doesn't break a sweat. It'll do gigabit.
Not true if you do anything other than route and I have posted as much more than once.
If you enable any traffic policies at all your max bandwidth throughput will be in the 60mbps range.
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@dashrender said in Routers and switches:
@scottalanmiller said in Routers and switches:
@mroth911 said in Routers and switches:
I have a web hosting business.
That doesn't explain the need for double routers, though. If you have pfSense, why add another router? Are you just looking to upgrade from pfSense to something more serious?
I'm guessing that the ISP is delivering Fiber to him.. he has to convert it to ethernet for his network, or run fiber NICs everywhere
I've literally never heard of an ISP that hands off fiber. Who do you know that does that?
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@jaredbusch said in Routers and switches:
@scottalanmiller said in Routers and switches:
@mroth911 said in Routers and switches:
I am using fiber for webhosting the ERL is fast enough?
WAY faster than you have. I'm running 160/160 fiber through it and it doesn't break a sweat. It'll do gigabit.
Not true if you do anything other than route and I have posted as much more than once.
Correct, but he's not asking if it'll do that AND something else. It'll handle gigabit speeds as a router.
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@scottalanmiller said in Routers and switches:
@dashrender said in Routers and switches:
@scottalanmiller said in Routers and switches:
@mroth911 said in Routers and switches:
I have a web hosting business.
That doesn't explain the need for double routers, though. If you have pfSense, why add another router? Are you just looking to upgrade from pfSense to something more serious?
I'm guessing that the ISP is delivering Fiber to him.. he has to convert it to ethernet for his network, or run fiber NICs everywhere
I've literally never heard of an ISP that hands off fiber. Who do you know that does that?
Yeah, no one does that.
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@scottalanmiller said in Routers and switches:
@dashrender said in Routers and switches:
@scottalanmiller said in Routers and switches:
@mroth911 said in Routers and switches:
I have a web hosting business.
That doesn't explain the need for double routers, though. If you have pfSense, why add another router? Are you just looking to upgrade from pfSense to something more serious?
I'm guessing that the ISP is delivering Fiber to him.. he has to convert it to ethernet for his network, or run fiber NICs everywhere
I've literally never heard of an ISP that hands off fiber. Who do you know that does that?
This is why I was confused by what the OP wanted. he originally asks for a router, then but then later says he's using PFSense... so if he's happy with PFSense, what is the router for?
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The router need to connect to the cienna switch they provide. I could configure my swtch on two diffent ports for wan ppp and then usable address
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@mroth911 said in Routers and switches:
The router need to connect to the cienna switch they provide. I could configure my swtch on two diffent ports for wan ppp and then usable address
Can't the PFSense do that? A ER-X can, I would be surprised if PFSense can't do that.
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@mroth911 said in Routers and switches:
The router need to connect to the cienna switch they provide.
Right, but you have a router for that today, the pfSense. Right?
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I am using Comcast router. Going into a hp2920 with pfsense vm
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@mroth911 said in Routers and switches:
I am using Comcast router. Going into a hp2920 with pfsense vm
Oh, you the issue here is that you don't have a physical firewall / router. Now it is more clear. Then okay, just get a Ubiquiti ERL and remove the pfSense completely, you don't want a VM based router on your network.
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Ok sounds good I glad I was on the right track. I also have a Cisco 2811 router, dont know how to
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@scottalanmiller said in Routers and switches:
you don't want a VM based router on your network.
What's wrong with it?
If he has more than one NIC on the VM host, he could dedicate one NIC to the PFSense, and the other to be shared internally.
Granted, personally, I like the idea of having the firewall be its own appliance, but is it completely needed?
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@mroth911 said in Routers and switches:
Ok sounds good I glad I was on the right track. I also have a Cisco 2811 router, dont know how to
Program it.Toss it. For $65 you can have a good router that kicks its butt and you don't have to spend time learning Cisco and you don't have to worry about how to fix it should something go wrong.
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@dashrender said in Routers and switches:
@scottalanmiller said in Routers and switches:
you don't want a VM based router on your network.
What's wrong with it?
It's not at the network edge. So the traffic is inside the network before being filtered. Fundamentally illogical for a network edge security device.
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@scottalanmiller said in Routers and switches:
@dashrender said in Routers and switches:
@scottalanmiller said in Routers and switches:
@mroth911 said in Routers and switches:
I have a web hosting business.
That doesn't explain the need for double routers, though. If you have pfSense, why add another router? Are you just looking to upgrade from pfSense to something more serious?
I'm guessing that the ISP is delivering Fiber to him.. he has to convert it to ethernet for his network, or run fiber NICs everywhere
I've literally never heard of an ISP that hands off fiber. Who do you know that does that?
My ISP does if you want but it is way too expensive for us. don't even remember the price... So we simply receive the fiber and the other equipment and their stuff convert to ethernet in our racks. Then we plug the eth in the firewall.
