Re: What is a 'Borderline Router'???

From: hal@info.der-keiler.de
Date: 01/30/02 

From: hal
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 22:58:16 GMT

On 30 Jan 2002 03:13:02 -0800, wrote:

>Can anyone enlighten me...
>
>I need to link up two offices in London (which I'm familiar with) and
>another in Germany.
>
>I asked the German office about their configuration. They have an ISP
>service from Deutsche Telekon called 'T-Interconnect Basic'. This is a
>128k service deliverd via to a Cisco800 router.
>
>All well and good...
>
>Then they tell me that theres ANOTHER 'borderline router', a Bintec

They probably meant border router. A border router is an endpoint
router on a stub network (only one way to the net).

>X1200 sitting between the Cisco and the LAN hub. "It's an ordinary
>router, but necessary to avoid being charged for all internal data
>transfer." Er, what??
>
>
>This puzzles me... this is where I'd hoped to insert a firewall.
>
>What role could this Bintec be fulfilling? Its' doing NAT between the
>internal network and the Cisco.. but I suspect its really doing the
>job of a firewall.

probably. They should have been able to do NAT on the Cisco so I
doubt that is all the Bintec is doing, although I know nothing about
Bintec. Maybe some searches on that model to find out what it is
capable of.

Cheers,

Hal

>
>Any thoughts??
>
>Thanks, Eric