Sounds like you are looking for a gateway router to link your lan to
an ISP... But if your lan is only doing IPX your ISP will have to do IPX
too - rare. Most ISPs are TCP/IP, which means you need to use IP for the
connection, and IP on the LAN. We do not do IPX to IP translation. We
support IPX and IP, but our boxes do not switch data from one to the other.
If you have an IPX-IP gateway on the LAN - maybe a workstation doing this -
then you could put one of our units on the IP segment.
>How many simultaneous users, besides bandwith issues, can
>such a box hold? How does it handle the routing? Does
>the office users need official IP's? Do I need a special
>router on my end?
With what you have described, it doesn't sound like the box would be
concerned with 'users' at all. It would just be a gateway from the LAN to
the ISP. The only concern there is bandwith.
Routing is the normal RIP/SAP/ARP used for IP and IPX. If your office is
going to be talking to the outside world (ie surfing the web) then you will
need official IP addresses. The Internet runs on IP, and machines out
there will need to know what you machines' numbers are to respond to queries.
>What box on my end, that would hold multiple BRI's,
>would be the best to use, on the ISP end, with this setup?
I don't know why you'd need multiple BRIs for what you are describing here,
sounds like you'll have one link from the LAN to the ISP. I would recommend
the OR-U (1 BRI) for that.
But if you want multiple BRIs, look at the PM-2i (5 BRI) or PM-2ei (5 BRI base
and 2 expansion slots, each can take 5 BRI or 10 async port cards).
-MZ
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