[Lula-biz] hello and I need quote for consulting

[Jack Denman]

On Tuesday 11 February 2003 17:01, David Thomas wrote:
> Hi
> I'm new to this list!  I'm told that I can find Linux entrepreneurs and
> consultants here!
>
> But before I introduce myself I'm in a bind and I need help.
>
> A local nonprofit educational institution has a lan/wan problem and I
> would like submit this preliminary RFP and see if we can come in at a
> price they can handle.  Feel free to email me for more details.
>
> They need a linux nat/router/firewall/... to accomplish the following:
> The outside connection is to a DSL that's having problems routing outbound
> packets with larger MTU like emanating from the Mac mail server.
> Consulting appreciated.
>
> There are a number of public IPs to be mapped to 6 internal servers.
>
> On the inside is a NAT to 300 workstations for students  that generate
> and unnacceptable amount of Gnutella and Kazaa traffic saturating the
> DSL pipe.  That's gotta stop.
>
> Dave
>

Jamming the network with that many workstations competing for the resources of 
the DSL connection will stop it - guaranteed. You are overloading the DSL and 
I do not know of any way to control the traffic or slow it down. DSL is not 
really the gateway you need. A T1 line would handle the traffic a lot better. 
The other option is to create subnets that are VPN's that have no connection 
to the Internet thereby reducing the traffic. All computer resources have 
their limits. Even if you could control the traffic flow, the performance 
would not be much better. You have to eliminate some of the traffic or get 
better resources.

Jack Denman



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