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<DIV><FONT size=2>Greetings,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Our local Time Warner Cable divisions
have generously provided free modems and residential Road Runner
high speed Internet service to our main library and one branch. (They did
not come to us, but readily installed it when we formally asked). A panel
at the last Stakeholders Meetings covered the use of commercial broadband and
VPN tunnels from branches to main libraries and catalogs. Wes Osborn
also mentioned using a Checkpoint firewall to load balance his main library's T1
and business-class Road Runner. Is any one else doing this for redundancy
and increased bandwidth? Does anyone have DAS load balance another
ISP on the main library router (if that's possible)?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Can anyone recommend any of the new cheap dual WAN hardware
that is becoming available, to either supplement or replace our single WAN port
firewall? A brief survey shows everything from a Hawking router for
$55 to enterprise-class load balancers from Radware and F5 for many
thousands. We need to route some traffic to OARnet for IP authentication,
a capability the cheaper devices lack. Policy-based NAT and antivirus
scanning would also be nice. But our current budget probably limits us to
the low $1000 range. Does anyone have experience with Netgear, D-Link,
Xincom, Hotbrick, or others?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Alternatively, we could use Road Runner for a completely
separate network, for a wireless hotspot perhaps. But that seems like a
waste of bandwidth, albeit free.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Thank you for any thoughts,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Philip Robinette</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Franklin Public Library</FONT></DIV>
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